Srabh Kirpal uld bee India’s first openly gay judge. All you need to know - India Today

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• INDIA GAY JUDGE
• SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
• SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE

INDIA GAY JUDGE

(Image by Vani Gupta/India Today)The Centre has urged the Supreme Court Collegium to rensir s remendatn to elevate openly-gay lawyer Srabh Kirpal as a Delhi High Court judge. If appoted, he will be the first openly gay judge on a nstutnal urt the untry.

SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Kirpal was part of the team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, who were among the petners the celebrated se that led to crimalisg gay sex.

The NGO led India’s fight agast Sectn 377 to crimalize homosexualy. The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday stood firm by s rolve to have the ernment appot openly gay lawyer Srabh Kirpal as Delhi High Court judge, sayg every dividual is “entled to mata their own digny and dividualy based on sexual orientatn” three-member Collegium of Chief Jtice D.

SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM FIRM ON APPOTG GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL AS HIGH COURT JUDGE

Kirpal’s partner beg a Swiss natnal, that they have an “timate relatnship” and the lawyer is “open about his sexual orientatn” ernment, the Collegium said, was also worried that same-sex marriage was not regnised India though “homosexualy stands crimalised”. Kirpal’s “arnt volvement and passnate attachment to gay rights” did not le out the “possibily of bias and prejudice”. Kirpal would be India’s first openly gay judge a High Court.