Section 377

It was judicial indifference that resulted in section 377 being retained on the statute books and it was the clear presence of empathy that resulted in section 377 being read down.

Section 377. Referred to unnatural offences and says whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life. In simple words section 377 is a law that calls gay sex unnatural and a crime for which the. Section 377 of the indian penal code was introduced in 1861 during the british rule of india.

The section 377 of the indian penal code ipc is an act that criminalises homosexuality and was introduced in the ear 1861 during the british rule of india. The law was used to prosecute people engaging in oral and anal sex along with homosexual activity. It has also been used to criminalize third gender people such as the apwint in malaysia.

Like the british buggery act of 1533 it made sexual activities against the order of nature illegal. Modelled on the buggery act of 1533 it makes sexual activities against the order of nature illegal.