A user of the application will be able to see the rainbow colour track once they book the cab. On their Twitter account, UBER shared a video with the quote “Fire up the #Uber app to #RideWithPride #Sec377 #LoveIsLove”
Many on social media also appreciated this move. Here's how the Twitterati are posting their reactions on the social media platform.
On Thursday, a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra and comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud, Rohinton Fali Nariman, A M Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra, issued the verdict on a bunch of petitions filed to scrap the law. The bench had earlier reserved its verdict on July 17.
The CJI while delivering the verdict observed that criminalising gay sex is irrational and indefensible. CJI said LGBT community has same rights as any other citizen. Respect for each other's rights, and others are supreme humanity, observed the bench unanimously, while saying that right to live with dignity is right.
Known as Section 377 of the IPC, the 157-year-old law criminalised certain sexual acts, terming them as 'unnatural offences', punishable by a 10-year jail term.
The verdict comes on five petitions moved by dancer Navtej Singh Johar, journalist Sunil Mehra, chef Ritu Dalmia, hotelier Aman Nath and business executive Ayesha Kapur.