Section 377, which became a controversial section of the Indian constitution is now in the hand of the apex court of India. On Tuesday, Supreme Court reserved the order to eradicate section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which sets punishments against homosexuality.

A five-judge division bench was led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and included Justices D. Y. Chandrachud, Rohinton Fali Nariman, A. M. Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra.

Worthy to mention that on 12th July Tushar Mehta, the Additional Solicitor General who represented the central government in front of five-judge constitution bench of Supreme Court leave the further validity of Section 377 to the acumen of the honorary judges. The decision is now in the hand of SC ad they locked the decision to decriminalize the homosexuality in India.

Notably, in 2009 when Delhi High Court the section SC was the one who denied to upheld the verdict.

Section 377 of chapter XVI criminalized sexual activities "against the order of nature", including homosexual activities.  Right to Privacy that was added to the fundamental rights of Indian citizens on 24 August 2017 is the one which eventually decriminalizes the sexual acts done by an LGBT as the fundamental rights restrict law to intervene in private matters of every society while condemning discrimination.