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Contents:

• SRABH KIRPAL: THE MAN WHO ULD BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
• 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
• INDIA’S ERNMENT OBJECTS TO OPENLY GAY JUDGE NDIDATE, SAYS URT
• WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE
• INDIA SET TO APPOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE
• SRABH KIRPAL TO BEE INDIA'S FIRST GAY JUDGE
• TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS
• SC AGA BACKS APPOTMENT OF OPENLY GAY ADVOTE AS DELHI HC JUDGE
• SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM AGA BACKS GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL FOR HC JUDGE

SRABH KIRPAL: THE MAN WHO ULD BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

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.

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. By Tirtho Banerjee: 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. 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.

SRABH KIRPAL: THE MAN WHO ULD BE INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

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.

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

Sce the overturng of the lonial-era law banng gay sex, after a -long battle, petns urt to allow same-sex marriage are expected to be heard by the Supreme Court paras and Bollywood movi also have ntributed to the nversatn, and jt a week ago, the lear of the Hdu anizatn that is the iologil parent of the BJP ma statements support of queer people, cg Hdu Grover, a Supreme Court lawyer who is workg on ongog same-sex marriage petns, said that the early 2000s, he stggled to fd petners for gay rights s.

Of urse, would be stupid for to say that society has pletely embraced homosexualy, ” said Sanjoy Ghosh, another Supreme Court lawyer, “but fely, we are a much better place than we were even 10 years ago. ”In light of this progrs, Ghosh said he fds even more “shockg” and “alarmg” that the ernment objects to Kirpal’s, who has reprented petners the se that eventually crimalized nsensual gay sex and is also part of the ongog same-sex marriage s, has been awag approval for the judghip for five years.

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.

INDIA’S ERNMENT OBJECTS TO OPENLY GAY JUDGE NDIDATE, SAYS URT

Kirpal is an openly gay senr advote who has been practisg for more than two s. 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.

WHY INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ADVOTE SRABH KIRPAL HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOTED HC JUDGE

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. Also read: Homosexualy vs same-sex marriag: India’s one step forward, two steps backwards.

“I don’t thk the ernment necsarily wants to appot an openly gay person to the bench, ” he told the news channel.

This would make Kirpal the first openly gay judge the untry.

INDIA SET TO APPOT S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE

India crimalized homosexualy the untry 2018.

India is set to appot s first openly gay judge. WAR ERUPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBUSTER’S GAY SUPERHERO. India's top urt crimalised homosexualy 2018 by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay the ernment said oppos regnisg same-sex marriage and urged the Supreme Court to reject challeng to the current legal amework lodged by LGBT upl.

"In recent months at least 15 pleas, some by gay upl, have been filed askg the urt to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's issue of same-sex marriage is sensive India and speakg openly about homosexualy is taboo for many the socially-nservative untry of 1. A landmark judgment by India’s hight urt has overturned a lonial-era law that crimaliz nsensual gay sex, a hard-fought victory for the LGBTQ muny. The urt verdict is a major tone for LGBTQ-intifyg people across the untry, where homosexualy remas a social taboo and gay people face enmic discrimatn.

SRABH KIRPAL TO BEE INDIA'S FIRST GAY JUDGE

” India jos 17 Commonwealth natns that have overturned laws crimalizg homosexualy, a legacy left behd most of the natns by the former Brish lonial lers.

TOP INDIA URT BACKS GAY LAWYER'S APPOTMENT OVER T OBJECTNS

Homosexualy still remas illegal 36 Commonwealth untri, cludg Sgapore, Kenya and Sri Lanka.

For much of the perd before Brish le, homosexualy featured promently Indian relig texts and sculptur.

” The lg may also help dismantle the stigma attached to HIV and AIDS among gay men as the law imped many om seekg the medil re they need. New Delhi’s High Court crimalized homosexualy among nsentg adults 2009, only to be later overturned by the untry’s Supreme Court 2012, followg appeals om relig groups. Gay India earlier this year.

SC AGA BACKS APPOTMENT OF OPENLY GAY ADVOTE AS DELHI HC JUDGE

“I thought this would send a msage to people ral areas as they would likely take the word of a scientist who is livg as an openly-gay man.

SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM AGA BACKS GAY LAWYER SRABH KIRPAL FOR HC JUDGE

He says spreadg awarens to remote areas is a major hurdle as a majory of people the regns nsir homosexualy a disease, or at bt, a phase. Mai rells how his mother blamed homosexualy on his cy life when he me out to his fay 2016.

Even though Hdu and Mlim groups cid to stand back and not legally challenge the petn, members om all relig groups have vociferoly fend their anti-gay stand speech and media appearanc. Perhaps, a strg of posive news around people reprentg LGBTQ muny is makg a strong se for refg genr rol and societal seems that soon we might get to wns another history the makg wh the untry gettg s first-ever gay judge at the Delhi High, you read right!