“SC pushes limits of logic in its rush to legalise Same-Sex Marriages”, Swarajyamag, April 19, 2023:
“The preliminary hearings on the legalisation of same-sex marriages shows how the bench is tying itself into legal knots in its eagerness to prove its “liberal” and “progressive” credentials.
That, in the process, it will mess up several extant laws based on male and female identities did not seem to matter to the five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, which includes Justices Sanjay K Kaul, S R Bhat, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha.
The original petition was filed by two people of the same sex who wanted to be given the right to be legally married. As more petitioners joined the case, the issue has been extended to mean that any person, whatever be the person’s chosen gender identity, should have the same rights as partners of opposite sexes who have a right to get “married”…..”
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