A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court began hearing pleas on Tuesday seeking the scrapping of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises consensual sex between same sex adults.

Ashok Row Kavi, flag-bearer of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) movement, said, "The first day seemed absolutely spot-on. There was diamond hard focus on one aspect — the constitutional validity of Section 377. That is all the judges wanted to know, whether it fits into the framework of human rights of the Indian Constitution."