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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:40 PM

Published 07/02/2009 by Straits Times


Court rules gay sex legal

NEW DELHI - A COURT in India has made a groundbreaking ruling to decriminalise consensual gay sex in the capital of the deeply conservative society.

The Delhi High Court ruling, the first of its kind, applies only in New Delhi.

The ruling says that treating consensual gay sex...

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