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The following other wikis use this file: Usage on as.wikipedia.org নৱতেজ সিং জোহৰ বনাম ভাৰত চৰকাৰ; Usage on en.wikisource.org Index:Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. vs Union of India.pdf; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
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.
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.
India vows to explore all legal options and ‘take up verdict with Qatari authorities’
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.
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.
National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.