A Supreme Court panel in India has recommended the name of an openly gay lawyer to be a judge in what is being described as a "milestone" for LGBTQ rights. Legal journalist Suchitra Mohanty reports.

Of the 14 lawyers recommended by the Delhi high court collegium for judgeship after 2017, when Saurabh Kirpal’s name was proposed, 13 have been appointed as judges in the high court The Union ...

Menaka Guruswamy, whose arguments in the Section 377 case helped shape the Supreme Court’s 2018 verdict, has been nominated ...

The Supreme Court Collegium recommended that senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal be elevated to the role of judge to the Delhi High Court. This would make Kirpal the first openly gay judge in the country.

NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - India's top court has reiterated its backing for lawyer Saurabh Kirpal to be appointed as a judge at the Delhi High Court even after the federal government made ...

NEW DELHI — A debate in India over the nomination of a man who would be the first openly gay judge spilled into rare public view after Supreme Court justices published the Indian government’s ...

The Supreme Court Collegium has reiterated its November 11, 2021, recommendation for appointing senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal, an openly gay person, as a judge of the Delhi High Court, rejecting the ...

India’s Supreme Court Collegium Wednesday reconsidered the proposal to appoint openly gay lawyer Saurabh Kirpal as a Delhi High Court judge, and observed that every individual is “entitled to maintain ...