Sec 377 slapped on Infosys techie after wife catches his gay acts on spycam

A man has been arrested in Bangalore,Karnataka,India after his wife realised one year into their marriage that he was gay and having relationships with men.

The identities of the Bangalore couple involved have not been made public.

Senior police officials describe the arrest, that uses Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as a rare one.

WHAT IS SEC 377?

Under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, gay sex is an offence punishable with life imprisonment.
The section was declared unconstitutional by the Delhi high court in July 2009.

However, on December 12, 2013, that judgment was overturned by the Supreme Court, with the apex court holding that amending or repealing Section 377 should be left to Parliament, not the judiciary. 


The penal clause, from a 153-year-old British colonial law, makes gay sex punishable with life imprisonment.



The Case
The 32-year-old engineer is a classic case of societal pressures hurting individuals to the point of causing trauma.
He married his dentist wife in November 2013 but the couple did not live together for the first six months. He worked in Mysore and she worked in Bangalore.
Six months later, when he was transferred to Bangalore, the couple lived under the same roof but slept in different rooms, according to the police.
"The wife got suspicious about his behaviour because he did not have [a] physical relationship with her. She got more suspicious when she realised that her husband would return home with male friends in her absence,"
"The wife fixed CCTV cameras in the house, collected evidence for unnatural sex and filed a complaint with the police. We have arrested him," Sandip Patil, deputy commissioner of police, Central Division, Bangalore, told