LGBT members says "No Going Back", in Delhi

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Members and supporters of LGBT gathered at Connaught Place, New Delhi protesting against the verdict given by the Supreme court of India regarding the section 377. Section 377 is a British law introduced in India in 1860. The British people themselves stopped practicing the law since 1960, whereas in India the law still exists. Section 377 of the penal code in 42 former British colonies criminalizes anal sex between men and other homosexual acts. The provision was introduced by British colonial authorities in the British Raj as section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, and was used as the model for sodomy laws in many other British colonies, in many cases with the same section number. The prohibition of homosexual acts is provided for in section 377 of the penal codes of India, Malaysia, Singa