India’s Supreme Court reinstates ban on gay sex
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The court ruled that India’s colonial-era homosexuality law — which says that gay sex is “against the order of nature” and punishable by up to 10 years in prison — is constitutional. Changing it should be left up to the country’s Parliament, not the courts, the judges ruled.
Dec. 11, 2013 Activists console one another during a protest in Mumbai against the Supreme Court’s ruling reinstating a ban on gay sex. The court reinstated the colonial-era ban, which could see gay people jailed for up to 10 years, in a major setback for rights campaigners in the world’s biggest democracy. Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images
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The Indian Supreme Court rules that an 1860 British colonial law against homosexuality is constitutional.
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