UPPSC 2018 GS-I Current Affairs
Question

Supreme Courts judgement regarding homosexuality is related to which of the following?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option A: Section 377 of IPC

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Section 377 of IPC”.

The Supreme Court's judgment regarding homosexuality is related to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

In 2013, the Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutionality of Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalized homosexual acts between consenting adults.

However, in a landmark judgment in 2018, the Supreme Court declared that Section 377 was unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalized consensual sexual acts between adults of the same gender.

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