A constitution bench of #SupremeCourt will continue hearing a batch of petitions seeking legal recognition for queer marriage in India.Follow LIVE UPDATES...
A constitution bench of #SupremeCourt will continue hearing a batch of petitions seeking legal recognition for queer marriage in India.
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The bench has risen for the day. The arguments will resume on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.
CJI DY Chandrachud: Mr Dwivedi, just give us a page on your submissions.
SG Mehta: There is no treaty obligation argument permissible. Please see judgement on this.
SG Mehta: Judicial pronouncements of other countries cannot be relied upon because cultural social ethos, jurisprudence is different of all nations.
SG Mehta: Let's see what the view of our court is. Please see. Article 19- Freedom of love, expression, doesn't mean institutionally recognised form. A friendship is an expression.
SG Mehta: Right now it would be hazardous to make any guess work on that. That's my point.
SG Mehta: This movement started 20-30 years ago. We don't have any data. The first or second generation is here. So what is the effect on children, very few may have adopted - there is no reliable data.
SG Mehta reads a judgment on whether courts can adjudicate upon the issue or it should be left to the legislature.
SG Mehta: Not comparable to transgender persons.
SG Mehta: Persons in L or G category of LGBTQ, they're not stigmatised or getting problems.
CJI DY Chandrachud: They're very badly stigmatised. In fact the parliamentary debate on the 1954 Act shows that there was a considerable degree of stigma attached.