The Orissa High Court has set aside departmental punishments, including suspension and imposition of black marks, against an police Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) accused of unnatural anal intercourse with a subordinate Home Guard against his will at the workplace.

Justice V. Narasingh quashed a criminal case and accepted a compromise between the parties, noting that the Supreme Court’s Navtej  Singh  Johar judgement now decriminalises consensual same-sex acts. 

The Court also criticised the department for acting without a proper hearing. Highlighting the absence of coercion, the court found no evidence of non-consensual conduct

Consequently, all imposed punishments were quashed, and the ASI was directed to receive full salary and benefits for the suspension period.