The problem with conversion therapies is lack of consent, and how in many coercive cases it blatantly violates Supreme Court’s decision in Navtej Johar v. Union of India and the provisions of the Mental Heathcare Act, 2017.
Absence of codified tort law is one of the reasons that such incidents bypass the normal statutes with minimum damages, writes Areeb Uddin, a law student at Aligarh Muslim University.
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