Indian Army Won't Allow Homosexual Soldiers In The Force, Asserts General Bipin Rawat
The Supreme Court has scrapped Section-377 of the IPC which prohibits homosexual relationships. The country had rejoiced the verdict but army chief General Bipin Rawat thinks otherwise. The General said that Indian Army has own laws on homosexuality.
The Supreme Court has scrapped Section-377 of the IPC which prohibits homosexual relationships. The country had rejoiced the verdict, but army chief General Bipin Rawat thinks otherwise and when asked to comment on the SC ruling on the subject.
"We will not allow this to happen in the Army," said General Rawat, addressing his annual press conference. The General said that Indian Army has own laws on homosexuality.
"We are not above the country's law but when you join the Indian Army, some of the rights and privileges you enjoy are not what we have. Some things are different for us," he said.
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court last September had decriminalised a part of the British era law under Section-377 of the Indian Penal Code which banned sexual relationships between same-sex humans.
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"We can't allow it to perpetrate into the Army," he said. Post the verdict homosexuality has been a subject of the debate while some support the verdict and an individual¡¯s choice sexual orientation, the majority of the institutions are yet to find peace with the verdict.
