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Same sex marriages cannot be given legal sanction: Government SECTIONS Share Synopsis The top court ruling, which allowed same sex couples the freedom to lead a dignified private life, only allows them the “basic right to companionship so long as such companionship is consensual, free from the vice of deceit, force, coercion, and does not result in the violation of fundamental rights of others”, it said, citing the court ruling in the Navtej Singh Johar case. Getty Images Representative ima...

Updated Feb 26, 2021 · 12:41 am Representative image. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP The Centre on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that in spite of decriminalisation of homosexuality under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, same-sex marriage was not a fundamental right in the country, Bar and Bench reported. In an affidavit on a batch of petitions on the matter, the Centre also submitted that a same-sex couple living together as partners and having a sexual relationsh...

Pride organisers seek political backing to provide spl act rights for same-sex couples Pride organisers seek political backing to provide spl act rights for same-sex couples ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 28, 2021, 06:00 IST While parties such as VBA, CPI(M), NCP and the Congress have voiced support, BJP says promoters yet to send formal letter In a bid to garner support for same-sex marriage by bringing in modification in the Special Marriage Act, 1954, organisers of Pune ...

ET Panache NEWS Powered by Country’s 1st LGBTQ+ workplace index is here. Keshav Suri feels it will make India Inc review diversity, hiring process Hotelier-activist Keshav Suri, one of the country’s most outspoken LGBTQIA+ advocates, through his non-profit Keshav Suri Foundation, partnered with Pride Circle, Stonewall UK and FICCI, to bring the Workplace Equality Index to India Inc. Synopsis The hotelier-activist feels that IWEI will help change how quee...

Updated Jan 16, 2021 | 16:45 IST A man allegedly sodomised a 12-year-old boy and then strangled him to death at a village in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan on Thursday night. Minor boy murdered in Rajasthan after being sexually assaulted [Representative image]&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Key Highlights On Thursday night, the accused took the minor boy into the fields, where he allegedly sodomised and murdered him. Irate villagers started pelting stones a...

When it comes to gay rights, Indians have come too far forward to go back in time. By January 12, 2021 The Indian city of Bangalore celebrates its second annual gay pride parade in June 2009. Credit: Flickr/Nick Johnson Advertisement Even after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Indian Penal Code Section 377 judgment in Navtej Singh Johar vs Union Of India (2018), the LGBTQIA+ community in India has continued to fight for equal rights. The community continues to fight for same-sex marriag...

Updated Jan 09, 2021 | 08:57 IST The victim, who hails from Gujarat, had come down to Thane on Sunday last to meet his friend, a police officer said. 19-year-old male model from Gujarat sodomised, robbed in Thane [Representative image]&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Thane: Police have arrested three persons from Thane city of Maharashtra on charges of sodomising a 19- year-old model from Gujarat, an official said on Thursday. Senior inspector DS Dhole of the ...

A 24-year-old man has been booked for allegedly drugging and sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

A 24-year-old man has been booked for allegedly drugging and sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Jaipur, Rajasthan.