NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court Tuesday refused to relook into its verdict criminalising gay sex in the country. A bench dismissed a bunch of petitions filed by the Centre and gay rights activists against its December 2013 verdict declaring gay sex an offence punishable up to life imprisonment. The judgement revived the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with life imprisonment...
in a setback to people fighting a battle for recognition of their sexual preferences. Seeking a stay on the operation of the judgement, gay rights activists, including NGO Naz Foundation, had said thousands from the LGBT community became open about their sexual identity during the past four years after the high court decriminalised gay sex and they are now facing the threat of being prosecuted. Amid huge outrage against the judgement, the Centre had also filed a review petition in the apex court seeking a relook to “avoid grave miscarriage of justice to thousands of LGBT” persons who have been aggrieved by the apex court judgement contending it is “unsustainable” as it “suffers from errors”. (PTI)
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