In a landmark judgement after months of deliberation, the Supreme Court on바카라 웹사이트Thursday바카라 웹사이트read down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), thus decriminalising consensual gay sex.
A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra,바카라 웹사이트had concluded hearings on the contentious issue in favour of the바카라 웹사이트LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Community.
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Reading out an unanimous verdict, Misra said that, "LGBT Community has바카라 웹사이트same rights as of any ordinary citizen. Respect for each others바카라 웹사이트rights, and others are supreme humanity. Criminalising gay sex is바카라 웹사이트irrational and indefensible.
The top court, however, said that other aspects of Section 377 dealing with unnatural sex with animals and children remain in force. Any kind of sexual activity with animals shall remain penal offence under Section 377 of the IPC.
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Section 377, the 158-year-old criminal code, is one of the many colonial-era laws besides Section 124A (Sedition law), Section 295A (Blasphemy law), etc.바카라 웹사이트Imposed in 1860 by the British, it criminalises certain sexual acts as "unnatural offences" that are punishable by a 10-year jail term.
Here are top quotes from the바카라 웹사이트 Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 of the IPC:
- LGBT community possesses same human and fundamental rights as other citizens.
- Section 377 of IPC was weapon to harass members of LGBT community, resulting in discrimination.
- Denial of self expression is akin to inviting death.바카라 웹사이트
- Courts must protect dignity of an individual as right to live with dignity is recognised as fundamental right.
- Any discrimination on sexual orientation is violative of fundamental rights.
- So far as consensual unnatural sexual act in private is concerned, it is neither harmful nor contagious to society.
- Government, media must give wider publicity to SC judgement so that LGBTQ community doesn't face discrimination.
- Constitution nurtures dissent as safety valve of society, we can't change history but can pass way for better future.
- Due to Sec 377 LGBT members forced to live in hiding and as 2nd class citizens while others enjoy right of sexual orientation.
-바카라 웹사이트Society cannot dictate sexual relationship between consenting adults as it a private affair.
-바카라 웹사이트Homosexuality is not a mental disorder. It is a completely natural condition.
