Supreme Court on Monday directed to listing the petitions associated to authorized recognition of same-sex marriage points earlier than a constitutional bench. A 5-judge structure bench of SC will hear the same-sex marriage matter from April 18.
The Centre has additionally urged the Apex Court not to lower quick arguments of both facet on difficulty of same-sex marriage as, it mentioned, the decision will have an effect on society as a complete.
The Centre has, nevertheless, opposed within the Supreme Court a batch of pleas searching for authorized validation of same-sex marriage, saying it might trigger a whole havoc with the fragile steadiness of non-public legal guidelines and in accepted societal values.
In an affidavit earlier than the Supreme Court which is scheduled to hear the matter on Monday, the federal government submitted that regardless of the decriminalisation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, the petitioners can’t declare a elementary proper for same-sex marriage to be recognised beneath the legal guidelines of the nation.
At the identical time it submitted that although the Centre limits its recognition to heterosexual relationships, there could also be different types of marriages or unions or private understandings of relationships between people in a society and these “are not unlawful”.
