BOMBAY, August 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Indian Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to laws against sodomy brought by the homosexual activist organization NAZ. Indian Additional Solicitor General K K Sud argued before the court Monday: “We have to take into consideration the morality in society as a whole, and such a relationship is not accepted in our country.” However, the court rejected morality-based arguments and seemed to favour allowing homosexual sex.. “As far as society is concerned, before 1956 polygamy was an accepted practice, but it had been stopped after the Hindu Marriage Act was passed to ban it,” the court observed. “If two people of the same sex want to live together, it may be their own thinking,” the court said.
Yahoo news reports that the court ordered the government to file a brief within four weeks outlining the legal basis for criminalizing homosexual sex and ordered a hearing for Nov. 27.
See the Yahoo news report at: https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20020828/co_po/court_challenges_india_on_gay_sex_laws