“I went to Mr Patil’s home along with Sujatha Rao, DG NACO and the Health Secretary and spoke to him for a long time. But he put his foot down,” he said.
NACO even filed an affidavit in September 2008 favouring scrapping of the law. However on September 30, 2008, the then UPA government asked the court to “ignore” Ramadoss’s statement.
Ramadoss now hoped that current Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would “make sure the judgment bears fruit”.
Like Ramadoss, NACO chief Sujatha Rao also cheered the judgment, saying that “decriminalisation will make gay population more accessible” to medical care.
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