Articles tagged with: human rights

Opinion: A rare defence of Justice Singhvi in the section 377 'media trial'

Advocate-on-record Amit Gupta puts forward the unfashionable opinion that, although Justice GS Singhvi’s judgment in the section 377 gay sex case was not perfect and unpopular, he did in fact get the law right.

#377 round-up: Global condemnation continues as lawyers prep review petition & lobby, BJP speaks against gay sex & NCRB to gather stats

Section #377 attracts international condemnation The Supreme Court’s upholding of section 377 banning homosexual intercourse, has continued attracting global attention with thousands of newspaper articles globally [ Google News ], and protests by gay activists around the globe opposing the judgment ...

The SC’s material errors should enable ‘review petition’ of its #377 judgment

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Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) senior research associate Surabhi Shukla argues that the Supreme Court made a serious error in its judgment, which would pave the way for a review petition of the judgment.

Column inches slamming SC’s Naz ruling overwhelm but 2009 academic argues how #377 is constitutional

The overwhelming majority of column inches spilled since yesterday’s historic about-turn by the Indian judicial system , were highly critical of the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutional validity of section 377 criminalising homosexual intercourse. Arguments were vocife...

7 creative (legal) reasons the Supreme Court found not to strike down Section #377

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Legally India has culled seven main reasons from the 98-page judgment, explaining why the Supreme Court decided that a lower court was wrong to repeal the law effectively banning homosexual intercourse.

India must lead to make South Asia human rights commission: Justice Ganguly

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Justice AK Ganguly said that a South Asian human rights commission should be created with India taking the lead, in his keynote speech at the OP Jindal Global University workshop on knowledge sharing on sub-regional human rights mechanisms.

NUJS journal to assist Supreme Court Judges in gay rights appeal

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The NUJS Law Review has launched a special issue on gay rights today, which the editors hope will help the Supreme Court when hearing the appeal against the Naz Foundation’s section 377 victory.

Lawyers Collective overturns anti-gay law

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The Lawyers Collective has emerged victorious in its bid to decriminalise homosexuality by overturning the so-called Section 377 law in the Delhi High Court this morning.