Two of the most celebrated Supreme Court judgments of the last decade — the one that decriminalised consensual same-sex relations and the one that struck down the criminal offence of adultery — are being openly questioned before the Court itself. The Union government has now told the Supreme Court that both rulings rested on an over-extended reading of a concept called 'constitutional morality', and that this makes them doubtful precedent. For a country where these two judgments are widely taught as textbook examples of the Constitution protecting individual dignity against majoritarian disapproval, that is not a small submission.