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The government's main AIDS prevention agency has filed an affidavit
in the Delhi High Court, supporting a request by an AIDS activist
group to scrap the law.
The National AIDS Control Organization, part of India's Health
Ministry, argued in the affidavit filed last week that the 1861 law
creates a public health risk.
"So long as the gay community is forced to go underground, it
limits the access to them and makes it difficult for the AIDS
prevention campaign to reach them," Sujatha Rao, who heads the AIDS
Control Organization, also known as NACO, told The Associated
Press.
I hope this law gets scrapped. This is covered under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860.
"of unnatural offences: Who ever voluntarily has carnal intercourse
against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be
punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall also
be liable to fine.
