{"id":1807,"date":"2018-09-07T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/2018\/09\/07\/india-supreme-court-strikes-down-157-year-old-law-criminalizing-consensual-homosexual-acts-between-adults-holds-section-377-ipc-unconstitutional-to-that-extent-read-judgment-live-law\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:19:54","slug":"india-supreme-court-strikes-down-157-year-old-law-criminalizing-consensual-homosexual-acts-between-adults-holds-section-377-ipc-unconstitutional-to-that-extent-read-judgment-live-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/09\/07\/india-supreme-court-strikes-down-157-year-old-law-criminalizing-consensual-homosexual-acts-between-adults-holds-section-377-ipc-unconstitutional-to-that-extent-read-judgment-live-law\/","title":{"rendered":"India Supreme Court Strikes Down 157 Year Old Law Criminalizing Consensual Homosexual Acts Between Adults; Holds Section 377 IPC Unconstitutional To That Extent [Read Judgment] | Live Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/breaking-sc-strikes-down-157-year-old-law-criminalizing-consensual-homo-sexual-acts-between-adults-holds-section-377-ipc-unconstitutional\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it is a unanimous verdict expressed through four separate but concurring judgments.<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 377 IPC is irrational , indefensible and arbitrary.The majoritarian views and popular morality cannot dictate constitutional rights\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/breaking-sc-strikes-down-157-year-old-law-criminalizing-consensual-homo-sexual-acts-between-adults-holds-section-377-ipc-unconstitutional\/ Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it is a unanimous verdict expressed through four separate but concurring judgments. \u201cSection 377 IPC is irrational , indefensible and arbitrary.The majoritarian views and popular morality cannot dictate constitutional rights\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,212,317],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","tag-lgbtq","tag-section-377","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/section-377-judges.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":407,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/01\/india-court-files-notice-to-aamir-khan-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807,"position":0},"title":"India: Court files notice to Aamir Khan for \u2018promoting\u2019 homosexuality","author":"aslam","date":"November 1, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"lgbtqblogs: A court in India has filed a legal notice with Bollywood actor Aamir Khan \u2013 for \u2018promoting\u2019 homosexuality on a TV show. 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