Updated on Saturday, July 04, 2009, 19:58 IST

New Dehi, July 04: Union Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed today asserted that there is no conflict of opinion in the government on the Delhi High Court order legalising gay sex.

"Ministers concerned have only met and tried to understand what the judgement has said...As far as I understand there is no conflict (of opinion) or debate in the government on this issue," he told reporters here.

His remarks have come a day after three senior ministers-- Home Minister P Chidambaram, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily and Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad-- met to take an in-depth view on the court order.

They were mandated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to decide the Government's stand on the issue at a time when the High Court judgement had not come.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday legalised homosexual acts among consenting adults holding that the 149-year-old law making it a criminal offence is violative of fundamental rights.

Khursheed said there are many people in the society who might disagree with the decision but everybody's valid point of view should be respected.

Bureau Report