India Supreme Court Rejects Petition To Review Sodomy Decision

The Supreme Court of India has issued a very short order denying a petition to review their surprising and much reviled decision upholding that country's anti-sodomy law that was released in December 2013.

Application for Oral hearing is rejected.We have gone through the Review Petitions and theconnected papers. We see no reason to interfere with the orderimpugned. The Review Petitions are, accordingly, dismissed.

The brief order was signed by the same two Justices who wrote the original decision: H. L. Dattu and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya.