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Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi welcomes SC's decision on same-sex marriage
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to recognise the right of same-sex couples to enter into marriages or have civil unions and left it to the Parliament to decide the issue. A five-judge Constitution bench unanimously said it cannot strike down the provisions of the Special Marriage Act (S
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Minorty judgment of SC recognises civil unions, adoption for same-sex coup
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The minority verdict, however, agreed with the three judges and said it could not strike down the provisions of the Special Marriage Act (SMA) or read words differently to include non-heterosexual couples within its fold and left it to the Parliament to decide the issue.
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CPI MP expresses disappointment over SC verdict on same-sex marriages
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the Supreme Court judgement concerning same-sex marriages and said the court has pushed the ball in the government's court issue "which is unlikely to take up the rights of the
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"Govt may want to address operational issues...": Advocate Sai Deepak afte
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud ruled in a 3:2 verdict against giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages. The top court said it is for Parliament to formulate legislation on it.
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Same-sex union: Petitioners, activists unhappy with verdict but say there
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Even though the Supreme Court has refused to give marriage equality rights to the LGBTQIA+ community noting that conferring legal status to civil union can only be through a law enacted by Parliament, petitioners and rights activists, though disappointed, but were of the view that the ver
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Filmmaker Onir disappointed over Supreme Court's verdict on LGBTQIA+ marri
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Onir, whose directorial project, 'My Brother Nikhil', pioneered LGBT depiction on the silver screen expressed his disappointment over the apex court's verdict.
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"Rights of queer citizens must be protected...": Advocate Karuna Nundy aft
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
"There were four separate judgements. The Chief Justice and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul together elucidated some very important sets of legal and jurisprudential principles. They said that there is no fundamental right to marriage but there are various aspects of the right to marriage locate
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Disappointed but will keep fighting, say activists after SC verdict on sam
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The activists and the people belonging to the LGBTIQA+ community were hoping for a decision in their favour.
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Same -sex union: SCBA welcomes decision, says legisation is Parliament's d
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Supreme Court Bar Association has welcomed the Supreme Court's ruling on the same-sex marriage matter where the apex court has accepted the version of the central government and the right to legislation lies in the domain of Parliament.
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"SC shouldn't give recognition...not consistent with Indian values": Top c
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
As the five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice DY Chandrachud, held a crucial hearing on a batch of pleas seeking recognition of same-sex marriage, Muslim cleric Maulana Sajid Rashidi said urged the apex court not to recognise such
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SC refuses to give marriage equality right to LGBTQIA+ community
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Supreme Court Constitution bench has in majority ruled that for LGBTQIA+ couples there is no unqualified right to marriage
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LGBTQ activists hope for positive verdict from SC in same sex marriage cas
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
"We hope for a positive verdict, I think the court will give us something, it can be a civil right or marriage equality right. Everyone should get equal rights, we're all the citizens of one nation. If the court will give us the right, the government will have to follow it," Anjali Gopala
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