By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has deplored the Delhi High Court verdict legalizing gay sex among consenting adults, and urged the Central government to make necessary legislation to nullify this judgment.
“Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is shocked and perturbed over the scraping of section 377 of IPC by Delhi Court. This judgement hurts the religious feelings of millions of people of India and is a setback to moral values and family system,” said Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
Condemning the judgment, he said: “It is not a question of merely scraping of section 377 of IPC but it is an attack on the moral and religious fabric of our society. Almost all religions consider homosexuality as a dreadful sin and social evil which leads towards the societal disintegration and breaking up the family, basic unit of the society. The homosexuality is also injurious to health as it leads to spreading of HIV+/AIDS.”
Jamaat has called upon the government to challenge this judgment in apex court so as to restore the dignity of humanity and confidence of the people who are shocked and disturbed by this judgment and feel that if this would not be nullified it would spoil the very foundation of the society i.e. family system.
The Delhi High Court Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Murlidhar in their 105-page judgment today said: “We declare section 377 of IPC in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual acts of adults in private is violative of Articles 14, 21 and 15 of the Constitution.”
While passing the order the Bench held that the law making homosexuality a criminal offence violates fundamental rights.