India's top court legalises gay sex in landmark ruling

India's top court has reversed a law from the colonial era that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

Five people had challenged the law, saying they lived in fear of being harassed by police.

Five judges sitting at the country's Supreme Court were unanimous in overturning the ban, which was reinstated in 2013 after four years of decriminalisation.

A law known as Section 377, which was widely interpreted to refer to homosexual sex, prohibited "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal".

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