Excerpt from the judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat in Same-Sex Marriage Case Issue of joint adoption by queer couples Some of the petitioners have challenged Regulation 5(3) of the 2020…
Excerpt from the judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat in Same-Sex Marriage Case While the right to marry or have a legally recognised marriage is only statutory, the right to cohabit…
Edited excerpt from the judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat in Same Sex Marriage Challenge to the SMA on the ground of impermissible classification The petitioners complained that provisions of the…
Excerpt from Justice Ravindra Bhat’s Judgment This court has recognized that marriage is a social institution. As elaborated in Part I, marriage existed and exists, historically and chronologically in all…
Excerpt from the Judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat The trinity – autonomous choice, dignity and non-discrimination 1. Importance of personal choice under the Constitution The journey of our constitutional progression,…
Excerpt from the judgment of Same-Sex Marriage Case (Paragraphs length have been edited) Before undertaking a study on whether there is a fundamental right to marry, and an obligation on…
Excerpt from Justice Ravindra Bhat Judgment in Same-Sex Marriage Case (paragraphs lengths are edited.) Marriage, as a social institution predates all rights, forms of political thought and laws. The institution…
Excerpt from the judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat At the centre of the dispute, lies the definition and the content of two willing individuals’ right to marry. On the one…
Excerpt from Supriya @Supriyo Chakraborty & oth. v. Union of India (2023) Let us preserve this autonomy, so long as it does not infringe on the rights of others. After…
On 17th October, the Indian Supreme Court delivered a historic judgment on the recognition of Same Sex Marriage. The Indian Supreme Court refused to recognize the same sex marriage. There…
