Nikesh and Sonu announced their marriage publicly after the Supreme Court struck down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and decriminalised the LGBTQ community in September 2018
The petition also draws attention to the tests conducted at the Pesticide Residue Research Analytical Laboratory of Kerala Agricultural University at Vellayani, in which almost 86 per cent of red chilli powder samples were found to contain ethion.
In perhaps the first such instance, serving cops have been awarded the highest punishment for the murder of a worker- who was subjected to third degree torture.
In a big relief to Malayalam magazine ‘Grihalakshmi’, the court refused to dub its cover showing a model breastfeeding a child as obscene, stating that "one man’s vulgarity may be a lyric for another".
The court asserted that the person had ‘the right to wander about or associate with like-minded people and cannot be compelled to be at his parental home’.