Legal & Policy - Documents

Documents on legal and policy concerns around
gender and sexuality

1. Criminalization of queer people

• Calcutta High Court verdict (SSG) on consensual cohabitation rights – January 2019
• SOGI Campaigns article on contribution of advocacy campaigns to decriminalization of queer people in India – November 2018
• ABVA open letter to Members of Parliament demanding complete scrapping of Section 377, IPC published in Gaylaxy – November 2018
• Supreme Court of India verdict (Navtej Singh Johar) on Section 377, IPC – September 2018
• Summary of Supreme Court of India verdict (Navtej Singh Johar) on Section 377, IPC – September 2018
• Media release on petition by queer students of IITs on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – May 2018
• Ashok Row Kavi & Others petition on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – April 2018
• Supreme Court of India proceedings in the matter of Navtej Singh Johar & Others petition on Section 377, IPC – January 2018
• Supreme Court of India verdict on right to privacy as Fundamental Right – August 2017
• International Commission of Jurists report on obstacles to justice faced by queer people in India - February 2017
• Kerala High Court order on CBFC objection to certify Ka Bodyscapes film - September 2016
• Akkai Padmashali petition on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – July 2016
• Supreme Court of India refers new Section 377, IPC appeal to CJI (Mint) – June 2016
• Navtej Singh Johar & Others petition on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – April 2016
• Supreme Court of India order on Section 377 related curative petitions – February 2016
• Madras High Court posers on legal recognition of diverse sexualities – January 2016
• Bill to amend IPC in relation to Section 377 rejected in Lok Sabha – November 2015
• Sex toys and Section 377, IPC The Telegraph editorial – February 2015
• Data on Section 377, IPC application (work in progress) by various researchers – 1996-2014
• Supreme Court of India Koushal verdict review petitions rejection order – January 2014
• Supreme Court of India verdict (Koushal) on Section 377, IPC – December 2013
• Delhi High Court Naz verdict impact study, O. P. Jindal Global University – March 2012
• Transcripts of Supreme Court of India hearings on Section 377, IPC – February-March 2012
• Minna Saran & Others (parents of queer people) petition on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – February 2011
• Petition by mental health professionals on Section 377, IPC in Supreme Court of India – February 2011
• Delhi High Court verdict (Naz) on Section 377, IPC – July 2009
• Voices Against 377 intervention petition on Section 337, IPC in Delhi High Court – November 2006
• Naz Foundation (India) Trust petition on Section 377, IPC in Delhi High Court - December 2001