[Reader-list] Verdict challenged in apex court

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Decriminalising gay sex: Verdict challenged in apex court*New Delhi, July 8
(IANS)* The Delhi High Court’s verdict decriminalising homosexual sex, which
has invited sharp reactions, had been challenged in the Supreme Court.

The lawsuit was filed by advocate Suresh Kumar Kaushal, who urged the apex
court to review the high court’s July 2 ruling, which struck down penal
provisions from sex between two consenting adults of the same gender
following an NGO’s petition.

Advocate Kaushal may apprise the Supreme Court Thursday of his lawsuit filed
on the matter and urge it hear the same at the earliest.

In his petition filed before the apex court registry Wednesday, he contended
that homosexuality is unnatural, leads to perversion in society and ought
not be permitted at any cost.

“No one can imagine the consequences of the unnatural acts. Even animals
don’t indulge in such activities,” he said in his petition.

Kaushal said decriminalising homosexual acts would result in further spread
of the HIV virus as “it has been amply proved that the HIV virus is a result
of unnatural sex”.


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Aditya Raj Kaul

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