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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government Tuesday clarified to the Supreme Court that it accepts a recent ruling legalizing gay sex in the country.
A lawyer told the Supreme Court that the government would not challenge a 2009 order by the Delhi High Court striking down a colonial-era law that made gay sex a crime.
The
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So much tamasha has happened in the media about the case today that its almost easy to forget that arguments were going on in court. In fact, the part that stands out today is the extent to which what was happening in court was divorced from what people, egged on by the media, thought was
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This is the report for day four of the hearings on the 377 case in the Supreme
Court. I think our sources have done a brilliant job, taking down a long day’s
arguments in such detail and taking pains to give us the actual voice of what
was being said. There are some legal terms and references, but
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Before starting today’s summarised report, a couple of comments based on what I
understand from the reports. First, … there’s definitely a
sense from today’s report that they are getting interested in the issue and also
intrigued by some of the more bizarre aspects of s.377.
And there are bizarre aspects in plenty. I think a lot of today’s arguments
dealt
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Today was the second day that the Supreme Court heard arguments in the appeal against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalizing same sex relations between consenting adults.
The case was first taken up on Monday and did not come up on Tuesday because some other matters, which were presumably seen as more urgent,
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This is to let everyone know that today the Supreme Court has taken up the S.377 issue by starting the hearings on appeals against the Delhi High Court verdict and the counters to these appeals and the interventions filed in support of the verdict.
This was as per the date they had given at the last time the matter
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