Srabh Kirpal is slated to be the first openly gay judge the Delhi High Court. In a more perfect world, only his qualifitns to be a judge would matter. That he is gay should...
Contents:
- SRABH KIRPAL: THE MAN WHO ULD BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
- SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
- WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
- INDIA’S ERNMENT OBJECTS TO OPENLY GAY JUDGE NDIDATE, SAYS URT
- INDIAN T REFED TO APPOT OPENLY GAY JUDGE
- A GAY JUDGE IS GREAT BUT LGBTQ NEED MUCH MORE THAN THAT
- TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS
SRABH KIRPAL: THE MAN WHO ULD BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
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Image source, Twter/ Srabh KirpalImage ptn, Srabh Kirpal uld bee India's first openly gay judge. A Supreme Court panel India has remend the name of an openly gay lawyer to be a judge what is beg scribed as a "tone" for LGBTQ rights.
It's wily believed that Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment is likely to accept Mr Kirpal's name the g 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised gay sex a landmark lg which was seen as a huge victory for the untry's LGBTQ populatn - Mr Kirpal was the lawyer for two key petners the se.
SRABH KIRPAL ULD BEE INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
Image source, NurPhotoImage ptn, In 2018, the Supreme Court crimalised gay sex a landmark 2020, he said he was two mds about his name beg sent for the post, but eventually agreed bee he thought he uld be a role mol for the LGBTQ muny. Mr Kirpal has said that he nsirs two people as his biggt fluenc the field of law - his father and Mr Kirpal's father, BN Kirpal, served as India's chief D Rangnekar, a former journalist and thor of Straight to Normal: My Life as a Gay Man, said the remendatn was a "historic" moment for the muny. (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.
WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
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.
INDIA’S ERNMENT OBJECTS TO OPENLY GAY JUDGE NDIDATE, SAYS URT
The NGO led India’s fight agast Sectn 377 to crimalize homosexualy.
The Supreme Court Collegium has reerated s November 2021 remendatn to appot senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge of the Delhi High Court. India crimalised homosexualy on 6 September 2018.
No, if you ask, senr advote Srabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, whose appotment as judge of the Delhi high urt ntu to be layed. Kirpal is an openly gay senr advote who has been practisg for more than two s.
INDIAN T REFED TO APPOT OPENLY GAY JUDGE
Related Articl He was part of a team of lawyers that reprented Sunil Mehra and Navtej Sgh Johar, the now well-known petners the historic se which the Supreme Court (SC) stck down the lonial-era Sec 377, which crimalised homosexualy. In a letter dated 1 April 2021, the law mister stated that though homosexualy stands -crimalised India, nohels same-sex marriage remas bereft of regnn eher dified statutory law or undified personal law India. The Centre also apprehend that given Kirpal’s “attachment” to the e of gay rights, the possibily of Kirpal’s bias and prejudice nnot be led out, Live Law reports.
A GAY JUDGE IS GREAT BUT LGBTQ NEED MUCH MORE THAN THAT
Also read: Homosexualy vs same-sex marriag: India’s one step forward, two steps backwards.
TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS
“I don’t thk the ernment necsarily wants to appot an openly gay person to the bench, ” he told the news channel.
NEW DELHI — A bate India over the nomatn of a man who would be the first openly gay judge spilled to rare public view after Supreme Court jtic published the Indian ernment’s arguments agast his appotment on the grounds that he is gay and allegedly a secury move laid bare an ongog dispute between the untry’s hight urt and the Mistry of Law and Jtice, which have been creasgly at loggerheads. Even if the mistry has objectns, the judg n send the ndidate’s name back, and the mistry mt appot mistry, however, has some s kept tossg nam back, and judg have openly exprsed tratn that the ernment has been holdg up some remendatns to scuttle Supreme Court lawyer Menaka Guswamy, who was one of the lead lawyers the 2018 se that eventually led to the crimalizatn of nsensual gay sex, scribed the rejectn of Kirpal as “wrong, unacceptable, and unnstutnal.