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India’s Abolishment of 377 Sparks Renewed Petitions in Singapore

The parallel of India’s 157-year-old Section 377 of the Penal Code exists in Singapore as ‘Section 377A’ of the island-state’s Penal Code.

The 377A criminalises sex between consenting adult men, but the law is not actively enforced. It was a colonial law left by the British.

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