Gay sex not an aberration, Indian judge says ahead of ruling on homosexuality ban


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jul 2018

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Gay people in India face deep-rooted trauma and live in fear, the Supreme Court said on Thursday before deciding whether or not to scrap a colonial-era ban on homosexuality.

A five-judge bench made the comments while hearing a challenge to the ban, which the top court reinstated in 2013 after a four-year period of decriminalisation.

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