DELHI: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalized homosexuality by striking down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.The Section 377 of the IPC as far as it criminalizes gay sex among consenting adults is violation of fundamental rights, said the high court. However, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes homosexuality, will continue for non-consensual...
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Delhi hospitals have refused blood donations from homosexuals, but are Mumbai and MumbaikarsEven as the gay debate simmers in India, with homosexuals rejoicing at section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (criminalising homosexuality) being abolished, a report in yesterday’s Hindustan Times underlines the sentiment that it is not just the law, but the attitude towards homosexuality that needs to change.The...
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didn't come in droves, but those that turned up for Nazariya's screening ofthe film Milind Soman Made Me Gay' on Thursday night had quite an intellectuallystimulating debate in store. The real highlight of the evening, however, was thepresence of some of members of Ahmedabad's gay community, definitely asignificant event post the repealment of the Section 377 of IPC in July.The screening, held at Natarani...
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a welcome sign of freeing sexual identity from age-old biases andstereotypes, Election Commission on Thursday gave transsexuals and eunuchs adistinct identity. Instead of faking themselves as male or female, they canidentify themselves in electoral rolls as `Others'. This means they can contestelections with `Others' identity.Coming close on the heels ofCentre's support to Delhi High Court's decision...
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gay Bangladeshi couple have been battling to gain citizenship in Australia for 10 years. The Refugee Review Tribunal knocked back their claims three times, and three times a higher court has overturned the rulings.The two men fled to Australia in 1999 after they were beaten, dragged out of their shared home, held up against a wall and pelted with stones. They escaped by crawling through a sewer. This...
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you are following theIndia-Australia ODIs, you couldn't have missed the latest Hajmola ad which has apair of male chefs preparing a meal to impress the boss. At the end of the meal,one of them says, "Hajmola ke bina khana kaise complete? Jaise mere bina yekaise complete?" A subtle way to get a strong message across - Jerry Maguire's"you complete me" cuts across sexual preferences.When the DelhiHigh...
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Shahu Nagar police station have arrested a 21-year-old school dropout on Wednesday for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old boy at Matunga Labour Camp.Senthil Kumar, 32, the victim's uncle, said, "My nephew is a Std I student in a Bandra school. On October 26, he told his mother [Kavita] that he wanted to reveal something important if she did not scold or beat him. After his mother assured him, the...
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awardedlife imprisonment to a man for raping and killing athree-year-old girl, setting aside his acquittal by a trialcourt."The trial court had not considered any factual positionor evidence adduced but has given the judgement erroneously,finding that the prosecution had not proved its case beyondall reasonable doubt," a Division Bench comprising Justices MChockalingam and V Periya Karuppiah held.The...
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The Madras High Court today set aside the acquittal of a man, who raped a three-year old girl and murdered her to conceal the crime last year, and awarded him life imprisonment.'The trial court had not considered any factual position or evidence addused but has given the judgement erroneously, finding that the prosecution had not proved its case beyond all reasonable doubt,' a Division Bench comprising...
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Reversing an order of a trial court, the Madras High Court has awarded life imprisonment to a person who abducted a three-year-old child and raped and murdered her.In its judgment on an appeal preferred by the Korattur police (on the city’s outskirts), a Division Bench, comprising Justices M. Chockalingam and V. Periya Karuppiah, said the accused had committed the barbarous and heinous act and dumped...
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