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Govt divided on section 377?

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday July 4, 2009, New Delhi

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Being gay in India may now be legal but how will the Delhi High Court order work on the ground?

Home Minister P Chidambaram along with his Cabinet colleagues Law Minister Veerappa Moily and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held meeting to analyse Delhi High Court's judgement decriminalising same gender sex.

Emerging out of the half-an-hour long meeting held at North Block, Moily said the trio will submit their report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The law ministry has been asked to give its opinion.

"We analysed it and reflected on the judgement, now we will be submitting the report to the PM for further action," said Veerappa Moily, Union Law Minister.

The Union home minister also promised to look into it.

"As we read the judgement, it only deals with only one aspect of article 377. Section 377 has been left intact except for one aspect and we have asked the department of law to prepare a note based on the judgement, we will take a look at that note and then decide what needs to be done," said P Chidambaram, Union Home Minister.

In what is considered as a victory for gay rights activists, the Delhi High Court had on Thursday legalised homosexual acts among consenting adults holding that the 149-year-old law making it a criminal offence is violative of fundamental rights and not punishable.

The government had on Thursday adopted a cautious approach and avoided any direct reply on what its next move will be following the judgement. (With inputs from PTI)

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Posted by aneet bariya on Jul 08, 2009

its not something which is only in the mind .its there within. so we need to give a thought to their perspective also. it may look unnatural ,but its not their fault if they are born that way. suppressing their orientation is only going to add problems for the straighter ones around. you cannot expect someone ,after coming to terms with his/her orientation to say that %u201CI cannot be a homosexual coz law doesn%u2019t allow so I will be hetro%u201D. its ridiculous for law to force them to lie and pretend what they aren%u2019t and act straight .had it been so their count would have gone down.its practically impossible to make them extinct just in the name of law,culture,religion and tradition.its time for them to be %u2018happy%u2019 and %u2018GAY%u2019.

Posted by george on Jul 04, 2009

I think it hypocracy to say that homosexuality is a criminal offence.It is introduced by the British when Britain was religous state.Now that country has hosexual priests. Banning homosexuality will not stop it and it will not make any difference in its practice. Keep is as crime will give chanve to the corrupt Indian police to harass people and take bribe.it will serve no other purpoose.Weather the people like it or not homos will go on with their acts in their private hide outs. I personally abhore the act, but Irespect the people's like to live their lives without imposing my morality on them. Let the homos live theie lives and let us get on with ours.

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