Via JMG: INDIA: Government Asks Supreme Court To Review Anti-Homosexuality Law
The Indian government yesterday petitioned the Supreme Court to review its decision to reinstate the criminalization of homosexuality.
The government asked the court to
review its order saying it believed it "violated the principle of
equality". There has been outrage over the ruling seen as a huge blow to
gay rights. There have been street protests and many activists and even
government ministers have criticised it. "The government has filed the
review petition on Section 377 in the Supreme Court today. Let's hope
the right to personal choices is preserved," Law Minister Kapil Sibal
tweeted on Friday. In its petition filed in the Supreme Court, the
government says "the position of the central government on this issue
has been that the Delhi High Court verdict... is correct". The Supreme
Court's earlier order was widely criticised in India. The president of
the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi described it as "an archaic,
unjust law" and Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the ruling had taken
India "back to 1860".
Very encouraging.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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