Does it end? The struggle of LGBTQ in India With the recent verdict of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India which Partially Struck down the 158 year old archaic colonial provision i.e. Section 377 of Indian Penal Code,1860 (IPC) as being violative of Article 14 (Right to Equality) and Article 21 (Right to life and personal liberty) of the Constitution. Indians got their third major freedom i.e. Freedom of choice after this historic verdict. While two previous freedoms were procured earlier viz. freedom from colonial era in 1947 when India become independent and another one economic freedom when LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization) was introduced in 1991. The interesting fact is that England which burdened Indians with this archaic rule has decriminalized homosexuality in 1960's by "Sexual Offenders Act, 1967". Section 377 of the IPC states: “Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse agains...
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