SC seeks response from Guv on challenge to HC gay sex verdict

SC-HOMOSEXUALITY


New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The Supreme Court Tuesday
sought a response from the Centre on the petition filed by a
child protection body challenging the Delhi High Court verdict
legalising gay sex on the ground that it was based on very
scanty and selective material.

A Bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal, G S Singhvi
and M K Sharma issued notices to the government and NGO Naz
Foundation and others, on whose petition the High Court had
held that criminalisation of gay sex among consenting
adults is violative of fundamental rights.

The petition filed by the Delhi Commission for
Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) contended that the dilution
of section 377 of IPC has legalised one more way of large
scale sexual exploitation of children.

Senior advocate Amarender Sharan and Amit Kumar,
appearing for DCPCR, said dilution of the penal provision will
have pernicious effects on Children.

The Bench tagged the petition of DCPCR with other
appeals on which the notices have already been issued and
posted the matter for hearing on October 1.

When the Bench wanted to know whether DCPCR had
intervened in the matter before the High Court, Sharan replied
in the negative and said it was doing so now as DCPCR, after
going through the judgement, has filed the appeal as it is a
statutory Commission for the protection of children. PTI KRS
SDE


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