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English: A landmark ruling of the hon'ble Supreme court of India overturning its own verdict on Suresh Kumar Koushal vs. Naz Foundation case. The court unanimously declared section 377 criminalizing homosexual acts as unconstitutional and repealed some of portions of the same, hence declaring all private consensual sexual acts between adults legal.
The petitioners were dancer Navtej Singh Johar, journalist Sunil Mehra, chef Ritu Dalmia, hoteliers Aman Nath and Keshav Suri, and businesswoman Ayesha Kapur. [5] This case was the first instance wherein the petitioners argued that they had all been directly aggrieved because of Section 377, alleging it to be a direct violation of fundamental ...
This judgement was believed to imply the unconstitutionality of section 377. [19] [20] [21] In January 2018, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a petition to revisit the 2013 Naz Foundation judgment. On 6 September 2018, the Court ruled unanimously in Navtej Singh Johar v.
However, on 4 February 2021, the Allahabad High Court ruled that firing and discriminating against a person in employment on the basis of sexual orientation is a violation of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India ruling of the Supreme Court, hence extending the anti-discriminatory provisions to employment everywhere.
To make their case, they point to the Supreme Court ruling in Navtej Singh Johar v. UOI (2018) that explicitly differentiated and excluded marital relationships while reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code for violating fundamental rights. They argue that the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexual conduct but did not legitimise it.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... the judgement was overturned by a 5-judge constitutional bench on 6 September 2018 in Navtej Singh Johar v.
This judgement thus overruled the ADM Jabalpur v. Shivkant Shukla (1976): [17] A person's right to not be unlawfully detained (i.e. habeas corpus) can be suspended during emergency. Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India [18] 2018 Decriminalisation of acts of Oral sex and Anal sex which effectively decriminalised Homosexual sex.
In June 2016, Johar and five others, belonging to sexual and gender minority community, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. [8] This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar v.