The Centre on Monday as soon as once more opposed pleas looking for the authorized validation of same-sex marriages because the Supreme Court was listening to the matter saying it displays the views of ‘city elitist’.
The authorities additional instructed the courtroom that recognition of marriage is a legislative operate which the courtroom ought to chorus from deciding.
“The competent legislature will have to take into account broader views and voice of all rural, semi-rural and urban population, views of religious denominations keeping in mind personal laws as well as and customs governing the field of marriage together with its inevitable cascading effects on several other statutes,” the Centre stated.
The authorities in its affidavit stated that marriage is a social-legal establishment which will be created, recognised, conferred with authorized sanctity and controlled solely by the competent legislature by the use of an Act beneath Article 246 of the structure of India.
“It is submitted that therefore, it is the humble request of the applicant the issues raised in the present petition be left to the wisdom of the elected representatives of the people who alone shall be the democratically viable and legitimate source through which any change in the understanding and/or the creation/recognition of the any new social institution can take place,” the Centre stated.
A five-judge Supreme Court structure bench is scheduled to listen to from Tuesday a batch of petitions looking for authorized validation of same-sex marriage in the nation.
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