India’s top court to rule on legality of gay sex
New Delhi: India's top court is due to rule Wednesday on decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults, in a decision which could change the fate of the country's largely-closeted homosexual community.
The landmark verdict is slated to be handed down four years after the Delhi High Court ruled that an existing statute banning homosexual acts was discriminatory and a “violation of fundamental rights” according to the constitution.
The statute in question is a British colonial-era law outlawing “carnal intercourse…