Health authorities are calling for a repeal of a 145-year-old law that makes gay sex a crime, fearing it is causing HIV and AIDS to spread quickly in India's homosexual community, officials said Wednesday.

Text of report by Indian broadcast industry website Indiantelevision.com on 20 July The many meanderings the CAS (conditional access system) story, which began in 2003 with a government notification, could well have reached its final denouement.