Justice Bhat : When questions are polycentric in nature, the Court must defer to other institutions...

Justice Bhat : However much we empathise with the cause, the means to the end must also be legally sound...

Justice Bhat's conclusions :

There is no unqualified right to marriage.

Conferring legal status to civil union can only be through enacted law.

But these findings will not preclude the right of queer persons to enter into relationships.