Important tl;dr for those not from India: 1. Section 377 is a 148-year-old colonial law (read: British rule) under which a same-sex relationship is an "unnatur

Important tl;dr for those not from India: 1. Section 377 is a 148-year-old colonial law (read: British rule) under which a same-sex relationship is an "unnatural offence" and punishable by a 10-year jail term. 2. The Delhi High Court (akin to one of the US state supreme courts) had in 2009 struck down this law. 3. The Supreme Court hasn't defended the law, but asked Parliament to repeal it. I quote: > "It is up to parliament to legislate on this issue," Justice GS Singhvi, the head of the two-judge Supreme Court bench, said in Wednesday's ruling. > "The legislature must consider deleting this provision (Section 377) from law as per the recommendations of the attorney general," he added."