The Supreme Court on Wednesday put probing questions on different aspects of Section 377 IPC, dealing with offences relating to various types of unnatural sex, in the wake of a Delhi high court order striking down parts of this section, which liberated consenting homosexuals from its ambit.
The query was put to lawyers for a dozen-odd petitioners who challenged the constitutional validity of the high court’s 2009 verdict before a bench of Justices G.S. Singvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya.
The bench posed sharp questions after senior advocate Amarendra Sharan, appearing for one petitioner, claimed the high court had not even gone into what the spirit and philosophy behind inclusion of Section 377 in the IPC was.
The hearing will resume Thursday.