In December 2013 the Indian Supreme Court reversed a 2009 decision of the High Court of Delhi that decriminalised gay sex.1 In reversing the decision, the Indian Supreme Court withdrew the legal potential for gays to become fully legible subjects, entitled to the same rights as everybody else. The recriminalisation
of sexual conduct under the penal code after a gap of nearly four years brought to a halt the efforts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) and human rights groups to consolidate the triumph of the 2009 decision, which included developing advocacy strategies in favour of same-sex marriage. The 2013 decision reflects the precariousness of subaltern desires and the malleability of justice.