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Gay sex is a criminal offence, rules Supreme Court

Gay sex is a criminal offence, rules Supreme Court

by The Daily Eye Team December 11 2013, 3:41 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 19 secs

In a blow to gay rights activists, the Supreme Courton Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment.

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya set aside the Delhi High Court’s verdict which had in 2009 decriminalised gay sex among consenting adults in private. Click here to know more




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