{"id":29815,"date":"2018-10-26T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:05:38","slug":"sc-notice-to-govt-on-petition-to-outlaw-section-377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-notice-to-govt-on-petition-to-outlaw-section-377\/","title":{"rendered":"SC notice to govt. on petition to outlaw Section 377"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sc-notice-to-govt-on-petition-to-outlaw-section-377\/article23652131.ece\"><b>SC notice to govt. on petition to outlaw Section 377<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has recently asked the government to respond to a plea to strike down the colonial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes homosexuality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">December 2013: Supreme Court dismissed the LGBT community as a negligible part of the population while virtually denying them the right of choice and sexual orientation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra observed the following points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>\u2018Right to choice of sexual orientation\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> needs to be declared as part of the <\/span><b>fundamental right to life and personal liberty<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under Article 21 of the Constitution;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A section of people cannot live in fear of a law which atrophies their right to choice and natural sexual inclinations;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Societal morality changes with time and the law should change pace with life, adding that the concept of consensual sex may require more protection; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individual autonomy and individual natural inclination cannot be atrophied unless the restrictions are determined as reasonable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC notice to govt. on petition to outlaw Section 377 Context: The Supreme Court has recently asked the government to respond to a plea to strike down the colonial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes homosexuality. Background: December 2013: Supreme Court dismissed the LGBT community as a negligible part of the population&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-notice-to-govt-on-petition-to-outlaw-section-377\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC notice to govt. on petition to outlaw Section 377<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704687600},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}