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SEMINAR ORGANISED BY CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES
The Navtej Singh Johar Case: History, Substance, Context and Implications
Speaker: Professor Arun Thiruvengadam (By Skype) School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University
Chairperson: Assistant Professor Swati Jhaveri
Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore
Commentator: Dr Ronojoy Sen
Senior Research Fellow and Lead (Politics and
Governance) Institute of South Asian Studies
28 September 2018, (Friday), 12.55pm to 2.15pm
NUS Law (Bukit Timah Campus), Eu Tong Sen Building, Lee Sheridan Conference Room
Speaker Professor Arun Thiruvengadam, School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University
giving his seminar via Skype video call.
It was a privilege to have Professor Arun Thiruvengadam (School of Policy and Governance,
Azim Premji University) and Dr Ronojoy Sen (Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS) participate
in a seminar on the recent decision of the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Singh Johar & Ors
v Union of India on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
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On September 06, 2018, a five judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India read
down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to decriminalize sex between consenting adults in
private. The Court, unanimously, held that Section 377 infringed the rights to equality, free
expression, and life in the Constitution. The talk by Professor Thiruvengadam and commentary
by Dr Sen helped to break down the complexity of the four separate judgments of the Supreme
Court in the case. The discussion that followed focused on both the doctrinal details of the
case as well as the social and political implications of the ruling.
From left: Commentator Dr Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow and Lead (Politics and Governance)
Institute of South Asian and Chairperson Assistant Professor Swati Jhaveri, NUS Law
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From left: Commentator Dr Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow and Lead (Politics and Governance)
Institute of South Asian and Chairperson Assistant Professor Swati Jhaveri, NUS Law
SKYPE Seminar in session
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Question & Answer Session: Questions from Associate Professor Umakanth Varottil, NUS Law
Question & Answer Session: Questions from Remy Choo Zheng Xi, Director, Peter Low & Choo LLC
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Question & Answer Session: Questions from Aishwarya Natarajan, Research Associate, Konrad
Adenauer Foundation.