Section 377 verdict: What did the judges say?

Pune, 06/08/2018: Members of LGBT comunity celebrate SC verdict of decriminalising gay sex, striking down British Era Section 377 which has priovision of 10yrs impriosnment for unnatural sex, on September 06, 2018. Photo: Jignesh Mistry.

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial era provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises consensual unnatural sex.

The Bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and comprising Justices R.F. Nariman, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, termed the part of Section 377 of the IPC which crimiminalises unnatural sex irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary.

Here is what each judge said while delivering the historic verdict.