{"id":284648,"date":"2018-01-08T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284648"},"modified":"2018-01-08T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:39:17","slug":"section-377-sc-to-review-2013-verdict-which-criminalises-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/section-377-sc-to-review-2013-verdict-which-criminalises-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 377: SC to review 2013 verdict which criminalises homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgbt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-284651 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lgbt-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"lgbt\" width=\"411\" height=\"266\" data-id=\"284651\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on January 8 said it will review its 2013 verdict on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said it would reconsider the SC&#8217;s December 2013 verdict and re-examine the Constitutional validity of Section 377, which has upset the individuals on its choice on sexual identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court has also issued a notice to the Centre seeking a response on a writ petition filed by five members of LGBT community, who say they live in fear of Police because of their natural sexual preferences, as reported by a news agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In December 2013, the bench of Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadaya dismissed the Delhi High Court verdict of 2009 that decriminalised homosexuality or consensual sex among homosexual adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on January 8 said it will review its 2013 verdict on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said it would reconsider the SC&#8217;s December 2013 verdict and re-examine the Constitutional validity of Section 377, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[130,131,132,133,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}