The Supreme Court said gay sex between consenting adults is a criminal offence, a major setback for the largely closeted homosexual community in India.
The court set aside the Delhi High Court's 2009 judgement that homosexuality should not be treated as a criminal offence, which had been challenged by anti-gay rights activists, social and religious organizations.
A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya had reserved judgment on March 27 last year on a bunch of petitions, many arguing in support and some against the HC verdict, after hearing arguments on a day-to-day basis for over a month.
The bench set aside the Delhi High Court's verdict which had in 2009 decriminalised gay sex among consenting adults in private.
