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India where freedom of loving people of same sex is not merely a question of sexual preference but is considered as deviant behavior, the biggest written constitution which grants equality before law without any discrimination on the basis of sex is a question on the face of the lawmakers. Homosexuality even today is not acceptable by the society, family and home but