“No gay men in the army.” Army chief Bipin Rawat shatters the rainbow cast by the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict abolishing Section 377 last year.
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00:00Gentlemen, the army is conservative.
00:02And same thing about, you know, the LGBT issues, you know, in the army these are not acceptable.
00:30We will still be dealing with them under various sections of the Army Act, where they become
00:35eligible.
00:36377, I answered, I thought, yes.
00:37No, I checked.
00:38I said that 377, as far as we are concerned.
00:39Yes.
00:40377.
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00:59No.
01:00We are not above the country's law.
01:01We are certainly not above the country's law, but in the Indian Army, when you join the
01:13Indian Army, some of our rights and privileges authorized to you by the Constitution are
01:18not authorized to me.
01:20Are we in the same – are we following the same Constitution?
01:25I do not have the power to form a union. You have. I cannot. So there are some issues where
01:35we are different. We are different because some things have been made different for us.
01:43But we are certainly not above the Supreme Court. No. Supreme Court has said something.
01:49We will have to see how we take a call and how. Let us also see how this comes into the
01:53society. We will see. Let us wait and watch. Let us see how this will start happening in
02:07the country, what will happen.