Four gay upl have asked India's Supreme Court to regnise same-sex marriag, settg the stage for a legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment which has the past refed to legalise such marriag.
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GAY UPL INDIA ASK SUPREME COURT TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
India's Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018. In January, the urt accepted a petn om four LGBTQ upl to legalize same-sex marriage. It is set to hear arguments on Monday. * gay marriage in india legal *
India's Supreme Court 2018 stck down a lonial-era law that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison but has yet to legalize same-sex marriag. India crimalized gay sex five years ago Dias and Anand were born an India that held onto a Brish lonial-era law crimalizg homosexualy. After s of grassroots activism and tense lobbyg at policy levels, the Supreme Court crimalized gay sex 2018.
Sce the law India only regniz heterosexual marriag, children of gay upl lose out on legal regnn for both parents.
A powerful right-wg figure has exprsed support for LGBTQ rights Sce there is no legal regnn of same-sex marriage, gay upl whose fai threaten them wh vlence bee they are opposed to gay relatnships have no protectn unr the law. Earlier this year, Bhagwat said that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to.
IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL INDIA?
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In December 2021, the Uttarakhand High Court orred a gay uple to be protected by the police. In November 2019, the Punjab and Haryana High Court orred the police to protect a gay uple threatened by their fai.
Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the most powerful Hdu natnalist anizatn, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, said an terview that gay people are a part of Indian society and have the right to live the way they want to. On Monday, the Supreme Court of India said a five-judge bench will start hearg fal arguments over grantg legal regnn to same-sex marriag on April 18, proceedgs of which will be livtreamed on s webse and the urt l favour of legalizg same-sex marriage, will be a landmark moment for LGBTQ people India and the entire majory of the 32 untri and terrori that have already enacted marriage equaly laws are the Ameris and Europe — and, when to relign, are predomantly Christian — so a posive oute India uld fluence laws elsewhere the the seChakraborty and Dang were one of two upl who ially petned the Supreme Court to change the law — the other is Parth Phiroze Mehrotra and Uday Raj Anand, a gay uple New Delhi — but the number of petners has sce grown, and the Supreme Court has also transferred several s om other high urts, cludg those Delhi and petn argu that India's Special Marriage Act, 1954 should allow same-sex upl to have the same legal right to marriage as oppose sex upl and that nyg them that right vlat several articl of India's Special Marriage Act solemniz marriage outsi of the relign or fah of eher spoe, as opposed to unns registered unr laws related to relig unns, such as the Hdu Marriage Act, It HappensTennsee law rtrictg drag is the 1st of many such proposed bills the U.
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