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Activists welcome India gay ruling

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Gay rights activists in India say a ruling by the Delhi High Court decriminalising homosexuality in the country is a landmark. The judgement overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which described a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence".

The BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports

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