Supreme Court has begun the Day 2 hearing arguments for granting legal recognition to same-sex marriages on Wednesday. The crucial case will decide the fate of marital and allied rights for lesbian and gay couples in the 1.4 billion-democratic country.
It’s unclear how long the Supreme Court will take to decide the case, which addresses what it’s called a “seminal” issue of great importance.
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– Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing the LGBTQ community responded to Mehta saying, “I am challenging a central law and merely because a subject is in the concurrent list it does mean states have to be joined.. insolvency was challenged before this court and that was in the concurrent list as well but states were not joined”.
He added, “The letter was issued yesterday and notice was issued 5 months ago.. this could have been done earlier”.
– Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Central govt said, “Before the petitioners start, I have placed one document on record. In continuation of my request that states be heard. Union of India has written to all Chief Secretaries that their views could be given”
-The government has filed a fresh affidavit before the apex court in the same-sex marriage case seeking directions to add all states and union territories as parties to the case. According to the Centre, any decision on the present issues without making States a party and without specifically obtaining their opinion on the present issue would render the present adversarial exercise incomplete and truncated.
-Centre tells SC it issued letter on April 18 to states inviting comments on seminal issue raised in pleas on same-sex marriages.
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