India's Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Sex in Landmark Ruling
- Top court dilutes colonial-era law that banned gay sex
- Law criminalizing the act is unconstitutional, court says
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India’s top court has legalized gay sex in the world’s second-most populous country in a landmark decision that partially struck down a 158-year-old colonial-era law.
After a decades-long legal battle, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has diluted Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was first enacted in 1860 and ranks gay sex alongside bestiality as a crime “against the order of nature.”