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A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court is continuing its hearing of the petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriage in India for the third day today..
The petitioners are seeking the provisions of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, to read marriage as between spouse instead of man and woman".On Wednesday, the second day of the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, filed a fresh affidavit, asking the apex court to make all the states and Union Territories in the country a party to the ongoing proceedings.Senior.
Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who is representing the petitioners, told the bench that the LGBT community wants "real rights in day-to-day life"..
As the hearing for legal recognition of same-sex marriage goes on in the Supreme Court,many are claiming that the government is making attempts to delay the hearing.The reasons being adjournment requests, and arguments by the Centre regarding the maintainability of the case and questioning whether the Supreme Court is the right forum to decide on the issue...
The intermediate stage postulates that by decriminalizing homosexuality, you contemplate that people who belong to the same sex would be in stable marriage like relations.So we see these relationships not just as physical relations but something more of a stable, emotional relationship," said Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud while hearing Senior Advocate Abhishek Singhvi's submissions...
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