India decriminalizes homosexuality

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The Indian Supreme Court has overturned a 2013 ruling that criminalized same-sex relations with prison sentences.

 

The Indian Supreme Court has once again decriminalized homosexuality in India on Thursday, by overturning a 2013 ruling that validated a British law of more than 150 years that punishes acts "against nature" and criminalized relations with jail sentences between people of the same sex.

The five judges that make up the room have agreed to annul the validity of article 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes homosexual relations.

"Article 377 is arbitrary: the LGBT community (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals) has the same rights as the majority." The majority view and general morality can not dictate constitutional rights, "one of the judges said. his sentence.

Members of the Indian LGTB community celebrate the ruling of the Supreme Court on homosexual relations