SC on same-sex marriages: The Supreme Court is ready to hear a quantity of petitions seeking legal validation of same-sex marriages on Monday, March 13. The pleas are scheduled for consideration earlier than a bench consisting of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala, in accordance to the trigger record posted on the web site of the supreme court docket.
Earlier on January 6, the highest court docket transferred to itself all such purposes that have been pending earlier than varied excessive courts, together with the Delhi High Court.
It had acknowledged that the petitioners’ legal professional, Arundhati Katju, and the Center’s legal consultant ought to work collectively to compile all written submissions, supporting documentation, and legal precedents that might be used in the course of the listening to.
“Soft copies of the compilations shall be exchanged between the parties and shall be made available to the court. List the petition along with connected petitions and transferred cases on March 13, 2023, for directions,” the bench had stated in its January 6 order.
Petitioners’ counsel demanded all circumstances be transferred to SC
The counsel for a number of petitioners had informed the bench that they need the apex court docket to switch all of the circumstances to itself for an authoritative pronouncement on the difficulty and that the Centre can file its response within the prime court docket.
On December 14 final 12 months, the apex court docket had sought the Centre’s response to two pleas seeking a switch of the petitions pending within the Delhi High Court for instructions to recognise same-sex marriages to itself.
Prior to that, on November 25 final 12 months, the apex court docket had sought the Centre’s response to separate pleas moved by two homosexual {couples} seeking enforcement of their proper to marry and a course to the authorities involved to register their marriages below the Special Marriage Act.
SC decriminalised consensual homosexual intercourse in 2018
A bench headed by CJI Chandrachud, who was additionally half of the Constitution bench that in 2018 decriminalised consensual homosexual intercourse, issued a discover to the Centre in November final 12 months, moreover seeking Attorney General R Venkataramani’s help in coping with the pleas.
In a path-breaking unanimous verdict delivered on September 6, 2018, the highest court docket’s five-judge Constitution bench held that consensual intercourse amongst grownup homosexuals or heterosexuals in a personal area isn’t a criminal offense whereas putting down an element of the British-era penal regulation that criminalised it on the bottom that it violated the constitutional proper to equality and dignity.
(With PTI inputs)
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