Section 377: Full text of SC's judgement on decriminalising homosexuality

The court also partly struck down Section 377 as violative of the right to equality

Below is the full text of the judgment of the Supreme Court regarding Section 377. 

A. Introduction 

Not for nothing, the great German thinker, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, had said, .I am what I am, so take me as I am. and similarly, Arthur Schopenhauer had pronounced, .No one can escape  from their individuality.. In this regard, it is profitable to quote a few lines from John Stuart Mill:- 

.But society has now fairly got the better of individuality;  and the danger which threatens human nature is not  the excess, but the deficiency of personal impulses and preferences.. 

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