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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Freedom's second coming -Anand Grover & Tripti Tandon

Freedom's second coming -Anand Grover & Tripti Tandon

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published Published on Sep 7, 2018   modified Modified on Sep 7, 2018
-The Indian Express

Supreme Court verdict on Section 377 will spark many more challenges to inequality, discrimination

Today is an historic day for India. The Supreme Court has decriminalised sex between consenting adults in private under Section 377.

With the judgment of the Supreme Court today, we, Indians, have attained a second azadi for those who have continued to be persecuted after Independence by the law enacted by the British in 1861. It has freed the LGBTQI communities from the yoke of a colonial law. This will usher in a new inclusive India which is the need of hour. This is a profound change. The LGBTQI communities can walk tall and openly with their heads proud and held high as equal citizens with dignity, liberty and fraternity. This will open new vistas for other challenges and opportunities, which will be welcome. A lot of people have waited a long time for this day. It has come at last.

Victory could not have been sweeter than this after years of struggle and after many setbacks. Though the wait was a long one, from 2001. But it has been well worth it, with all its ups and downs.

It all started in the offices of the Lawyers Collective in Mumbai after the great victory in the HIV field, that magnificent judgment of Justice VP Tipnis in Mx Of Bombay Indian Inhabitant vs M/S. Zy And Another (1997). That verdict directed that all HIV positive persons who were functionally fit to do the work could not be denied a job in the state or public sector.

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The Indian Express, 7 September, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/section-377-verdict-supreme-court-homosexuality-decriminalised-5343825/


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