Gay Marriage / Supreme Court will give important decision today on legal recognition of gay marriage

Gay Marriage: The Supreme Court will give its verdict today on the legal recognition of gay marriage. Earlier in the month of May, the Constitution Bench of five judges headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had reserved the decision after hearing for about 10 days. The bench of judges hearing these petitions included Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul, Justice SR Bhatt, Justice Hima Kohli and Justice PS Narasimha.

Now today an important decision of the Supreme Court is going to come on this matter. Earlier during the hearing, the Center had told the Supreme Court that any constitutional declaration made by it on petitions seeking legal recognition of gay marriage could not be the right course of action as the court would be in a position to anticipate its consequences, hypothesize Will not be able to do, understand and deal with them.

Responses received from seven states

The Center had also told the court that it had received responses from seven states on the issue of same-sex marriage and the governments of Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Assam had opposed the petitioners' plea to legalize same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court started hearing on this case on April 18.

Should be left to Parliament-Centre

Regarding this matter, the Central Government says that the Supreme Court should leave it to the Parliament. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared before the court on behalf of the government, said that a biological father and mother can give birth to a child, this is the natural law, it should not be tampered with. Even if gay marriage is approved, who will be the wife in a man-man marriage?

The court cannot change the basic structure of the law

The central government told the Supreme Court that the court can neither rewrite the legal provisions nor change the basic structure of any law as was conceived at the time of its formulation. The Center requested the court to consider leaving the questions raised in the petitions regarding legalizing same-sex marriages to Parliament. (input-agency)