![]() Based on the proceedings so far, rainbow flags are waving. In India’s Supreme Court system, the highest court in the country and the last word on legal matters, individual benches-subgroups of judges formed on an ad hoc basis-can reconsider the constitutionality of laws. ![]() In what may be the last great battle in a fight for gay rights that has lasted more than two decades, a five-member bench headed by India’s chief justice, Dipak Misra, appointed just last August, is challenging the constitutionality of Section 377, the British-era law that bans sexual activities “against the order of nature,” including homosexual activities. ![]() Five years after the Indian Supreme Court decided that an archaic piece of colonial law meant gay sex was illegal in India, the judicial system has a chance to set things right.
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