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Must-read: Full text of court verdict on homosexuality

July 13, 2009 17:50 IST

The Delhi High Court recently, in a landmark judgment, termed consensual sex between adults of the same sex legal.

The court held that the law making it a criminal offence violated fundamental rights. However, the bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Murlidhar said Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised homosexuality, will continue for non-consensual and non-vaginal sex.

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