S.377 IPC | Curative Petitions Against 2013 Judgment Infructuous Since Homosexuality Was Decriminalised Later : Supreme Court

A 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday (February 8) held that the curative petition filed against the 2013 judgment, which upheld Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (which criminalised homosexuality), has become infructuous in the light of the 2018 judgment which decriminalised homosexuality.In 2009, the Delhi High Court, in the case Naz Foundation v. Union of India had struck...