The ex-employee had alleged that the manager made "a mockery out of a religious minority" despite being a leader at a company that prides itself for diversity.
The function was called 'Hijra Habba' and when Gambhir reached there he was helped by the transgenders who were present there in wearing the attire.
The judge also said that this concern about the need to harmonise pre-Independence or colonial laws with the ethos of constitutional jurisprudence was reflected in the judgment.
Homosexuals should accept that their sexual choice is purely a personal matter, and it is better that if they avoid indulging in consensual gay sex in public places.
A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court unanimously struck down a part of the 158-year-old law under Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalised consensual unnatural sex.
This was one of the several quotable quotes in the historic Supreme Court judgement which Thursday ruled that consensual gay sex is not a crime.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra termed the part of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which crimiminalises unnatural sex as irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary.
In a landmark judgement, Supreme Court has scrapped Section 377 of Indian Penal Code out of the Constitution, hence decriminalising homosexuality in India.
As per the current provision in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, gay sex is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
In a historic verdict, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court ruled that Section 377 of IPC was weapon to harass members of LGBT community, resulting in discrimination.
The LGBT community has same rights as of any ordinary citizen, the five-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said in its unanimous decision
Section 377 is one of the few important issues that the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is expected to deliver its judgment on before his retirement on October 2.
He was reacting to Gandhi’s recent statement when he had said, “Now BJP MPs take two steps back thinking I'll hug them.”
The verdict is likely to be pronounced before October 2 this year as Justice Misra would be retiring as CJI on that day.
"We leave validity of Section 377, so far as it relates to consensual acts between two adults, to wisdom of Court," the Centre told the Supreme Court.
The SC bench made it clear that it will only confine the hearing to the constitutional validity of Section 377, which criminalizes homosexuality.
Appearing for the petitioners, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, argued that Section 377 violates one's human rights. "The issue deals only with sexual orientation and it has nothing to do with gender," Rohatgi said.
A group of present and past students of IITs across the country on Monday moved the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutional validity of Section 377 of the IPC that criminalises homosexual activity and other unnatural sex.
Section 377 IPC violates the fundamental right to privacy and does not meet the three-fold requirements laid down by this Court ..., which may justify restraints on privacy, the fresh plea said.
Owing to Section 377 of the IPC continuing on the statute book, various adult and consenting members of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Queer) community continue to face the threat of a false prosecution, the plea said.
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