Pleased to welcome the SC decision: Tharoor

September 06, 2018 13:31

Shashi Tharoor: I'm pleased to welcome the SC decision to decriminalise consensual acts of adults in private. In this country we've allowed govt to interfere in private lives of people to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation, but the SC stood up for equal treatment of citizens.

Tharoor had moved a private member's bill to do away with the entire section 377, but it was defeated on the floor of Parliament, with his own party members unwilling to stand by him.

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