India’s Supreme Court has agreed to revisit a previous judgement that upheld a law criminalising gay sex.

Three senior judges said the 2013 ruling would be re-examined by a larger bench of judges, in a move that has been welcomed by activists.

The judges said that the issue was a “matter of constitutional importance”.

According to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a 155-year-old colonial-era law, a same-sex relationship is an “unnatural offence”.

In deeply conservative India, homosexuality is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate.

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