In the army its not acceptable! Army chief bans gay sex

 

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NEW DELHI: Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat Thursday said gay sex and adultery will not be allowed in the Indian Army, months after the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality and struck down a colonial-era adultery law.

“In the Army, it is not acceptable,” he told a press conference while replying to a question on impact of the Supreme Court’s two historic verdicts.

The Army Chief said though his force is not above the law, it will not be possible to allow gay sex and adultery i ..

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In what was hailed as a historic move, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court last September unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises consensual unnatural sex, saying it violated the rights to equality.

When asked about the court ruling on adultery, he said the Army is conservative.

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“We can’t allow it to perpetrate into the Army,” the Army chief said. Last year, the Supreme Court had struck down a colonial-era anti-adultery law, saying it was unconstitutional, dented the individuality of women and treated them as “chattel of husbands”.

The conduct of the Army personnel is governed by the Army Act.

“In the Army we never thought this can happen. Anything that was thought of was put in the Army Act. It was something which was unheard of when the Army Act was made. We never thought this is going to happen. We never allow it. Therefore it was not put in the Army Act,” he said.

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