A Constitution Bench will begin to re-visit its December 2013 verdict of the Supreme Court which upheld the criminalisation of gay sex and dismissed the LGBT community as a negligible part of the population while virtually denying them the right of choice and sexual orientation.
The five-judge Bench — headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and comprising Justices R.F. Nariman, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra — will examine petitions claiming that the 2013 judgment was wrong. On Monday, it rejected a plea by the government to defer the hearings.
Published - July 10, 2018 12:00 am IST
