New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday advised the Supreme Court {that a} committee headed by the cupboard secretary can be constituted to discover administrative steps for addressing some issues of same-sex {couples} with out going into the problem of legalizing their marriage.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, showing for the Centre, advised a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which is listening to a batch of pleas in search of authorized validation of same-sex marriage, that the federal government is constructive in regards to the suggestion for exploring administrative steps on this regard.
He advised the bench, which additionally comprised justices S Ok Kaul, S R Bhat, Hima Kohli, and P S Narasimha, that this can want coordination between a couple of ministry. On the seventh day of the listening to within the matter, Mehta stated the petitioners may give their solutions on the problem of exploring what administrative steps might be taken on this regard.
While listening to the matter on April 27, the apex court docket had requested the Centre whether or not social welfare advantages might be granted to same-sex {couples} with out going into legalizing their marriage.
The court docket had posed the query after observing that the Centre’s acceptance of the appropriate to the cohabitation of same-sex companions as a elementary proper solid a “corresponding duty” on it to acknowledge its social penalties.
