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Transgender and Queer judgment was a “huge thumbs down a British-era law that it was part of the five-judge “Any kind of sexual activity (LGBTQ) community, result- up” for humanity. said violates the right to equal- Constitution Bench headed by with animals shall remain a ing in discrimination. “Historical judgment!!!! So ity, triggering celebrations Chief Justice Dipak Misra that penal offence under Section Across the country, gay proud today! Decriminalising among LGBTQ activists who delivered the judgement, cap- 377 of the IPC,” it said. people gathered in front of their homosexuality and abolishing welcomed the judgment as a ping a 17-year legal struggle. Delivering four separate television sets, waiting anx- #Section377 is a huge thumbs harbinger of a more inclusive “It (Section 377) shrouds but concurring judgments, the iously for the verdict to be up for humanity and equal India. Parts of Section 377 of the lives of the LGBT commu- top court set aside its 2013 ver- announced. Tears flowed and rights! The country gets its the Indian Penal Code, which nity in criminality and constant dict which had re-criminalised people hugged each other oxygen back!” he wrote on criminalised consensual unnat- fear mars their joy of life. They consensual unnatural sex. The spontaneously, when the judg- Twitter. ural sex, are “irrational, inde- constantly face social prejudice, SC Bench, which also com- fensible and manifestly arbi- disdain and are subjected to the prised Justices RF Nariman, trary”, the SC said in its historic shame of being their very nat- AM Khanwilkar and DY ",(()-!.('-!('-$-/-0 ruling that made India the ural selves. Thus, an archaic law Chandrachud, struck down 26th country in the world which is incompatible with part of Section 377 of the IPC & where homosexuality is legal. constitutional values cannot as being violative of the right to “History owes an apology be allowed to be preserved,” the equality and the right to live &''()?2AB to members of the communi- court said. with dignity. Dealing with a '!'!2'5 &3&'(,),' !,*' O*#!,- !!!* # ?2!* 2' .' !!# !! '''- !' *+&'',) ,! ,2 !#! 'O! !*- ##!! O 'O !O! 5 1A!' +$/&'(,), $%&&!!#' 12.# #!*- # !! ! ! !(!)! !# % %! P -/&'',) , '# #* '!! ! *0&'',)A! ! !,!, 4#&,&'(5),! ' 23 1 2 +$/&''1),! '! #*,2 !,2 ! #!L , A INSO (SOI alliance) won the #'M secretary’s post and Vipul Atray "#$ P *+&1))!, '' 3&'(3) , ( & wenty two year old of the NSUI won the joint sec- C:8% &' P TKanupriya on Thursday retary’s post. ' !! created history by becoming ' !%&&'! 5,-2 the first woman President of C:'' Panjab University Students' 0(2) ,!,' ! )!'! ! ) ' Council as she won the presi- %&&' 5, dential post by a huge margin #* ($1 1 Narasimha Charyulu issuing a of 719 votes. !' 46((),! gazette notification. Belonging to Students for ' ',! '%&& 1 He later called on the Chief Society (SFS), a leftist organi- -)A Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar sation not affiliated to a polit- ##', 46(&),' and formally handed him over ical party, she won the presi- !'' ' the notification informing him dent’s post in the Panjab '! '%&& nding month of speculation about the dissolution. University students’ council . #'5 # Eand suspense, Telangana A confident and gung-ho An MSc 2nd year student *+1),#! Legislative Assembly was dis- KCR later declared at a Press from Zoology Department, *0((&'(/),C::9 !,!!! solved on Thursday paving conference that he expects the Kanupriya hails from Patti '%&&'! 5,!! the way for an early election in fresh elections to 119-member town in Punjab. Her mother is the State. State Assembly will be held in a nurse, while her father is in 2!! The dissolution came after November along with a few a private job. ( the State Cabinet at a brief other States and the results will The SFS polled 2,802 votes meeting, chaired by Chief be announced in the first week while the Akhil Bharatiya Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, of December. Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) passed a one-line resolution. Giving the reasons for opt- came second with 2083 votes. After the meeting at his official ing for early polls, at least nine Students Organisation of India residence, the Chief Minister months before they were due, (SOI) got 1,997 votes. The drove straight to the Raj Bhavan KCR said, “We decided to go to National Students Union of and submitted the resolution to the people now to put an end India (NSUI) got 1583 votes Governor ESL Narasimhan. to political fragility in the State while 209 votes went to NOTA. Accepting the recommenda- caused by senseless, baseless, Daler Singh of ISA (SOI tion, the Governor asked KCR mindless and meaningless alle- alliance) won the vice presi- to continue as the care-taker gations of Opposition”. dent’s post, Amarinder Singh of Chief Minister. He said the Opposition’s The decision to dissolve “baseless” allegations of cor- Telangana Legislative Assembly ruption in drinking water and has come into effect with the irrigation projects are impact- R Legislature secretary ing the development of the State and creating confusion. With this curtains were drawn on the first Legislative Assembly of Telangana, the youngest State of India. The New Delhi: The Supreme Court up the plea filed by historian ing by the Assistant first Government of the State, on Thursday took strong excep- Romila Thapar and four others Commissioner, Pune, which headed by KCR, had taken oath received an overwhelming of peace and no one should try tion to the statement of a senior in the case. insinuated that the Supreme on June 2, 2014 and the next response with majority of shops to disrupt the harmony, Uttar police officer on the arrest of five A visibly angry Justice DY Court should not have inter- elections were due in normal !" establishment were closed. Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi rights activists in connection Chandrachud, who along with vened at this stage. He has no course in April-May next year. Trains were stopped and Adityanath said the bandh has with the Koregaon-Bhima vio- Justice AM Khanwilkar was business saying that and cast- KCR ruled out any con- highways blocked briefly in no meaning. lence case, saying he had cast part of a Bench headed by ing aspersions on the Supreme fusion on when the election Bihar while shops downed shut- Six policemen were hurt “aspersions” on the top court. Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Court Judges,” Justice will be held. “There is no need ters in some northern States to when they confronted protest- The court also extended its referred to the statements made Chandrachud said. for any confusion. I kept this protest against the recent ers blocking traffic in UP’s earlier order saying the rights to the media by an Assistant Additional Solicitor to myself but the fact is that amendment to the SC/ST Act. Ballia district. In Agra too, activists — Varavara Rao, Arun Commissioner of Police of General Tushar Mehta, repre- before the decision to dissolve Shops, schools and other com- protesters blocked traffic and Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Pune and said he was casting senting Maharashtra the Assembly was taken we mercial establishments were shops remained shut. But the Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam aspersions on the apex court by Government, immediately discussed every possibility closed in parts of Bihar, bandh was largely peaceful in Navlakha — would remain saying that it should not have apologised for the action of the with the Chief Election he Bharat bandh on Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, the State. under house arrest till entertained the plea. police officer. Commissioner and the other TSeptember 6 called by some Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. However, a report from September 12, when it will take “I watched the Press brief- PNS election commissioners,” he upper caste and OBC outfits in While Madhya Pradesh Ballia said BJP MLA from said. the Hindi heartland got good Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Bairia, Surendra Singh, response in the poll-bound Chouhan appealed to the peo- came out openly in support of States of Madhya Pradesh and ple saying the State is an island the bandh. Rajasthan as well as politically crucial States of Uttar Pradesh P and Bihar. But the shutdown 3)! ) had little impact elsewhere in )! the country. that it is a case of sexual assault. !' 45 Nearly 50 outfits had called We have registered an FIR !,!' the one-day bandh to protest n yet another case of sexual under Section 6 of the 6!76O against the amendment last Imisconduct against minors Protection of Children from 2 *!62! month to the Scheduled Castes in the Capital, a three-and-a- Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. '!829:: and Scheduled Tribes half year girl was allegedly We are investigating the mat- 2- (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. sexually assaulted at her school ter from all angles.