{"id":15011,"date":"2023-10-17T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/indias-top-court-declines-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:18:08","slug":"indias-top-court-declines-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/indias-top-court-declines-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s top court declines to legalise same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>India\u2019s top court on Tuesday said it cannot legalise same-sex marriages, with the chief justice of the country saying making such a law is the domain of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>A five-judge bench <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1742106\">headed<\/a> by the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, heard arguments in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1748746\">between<\/a> April and May this year and pronounced its verdict on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1748746\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Chandrachud said there was a degree of \u201cagreement and disagreement on how far we have to go\u201d on same-sex marriages as he began reading his order.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the other four judges agreed with Chandrachud on the court not legalising same-sex marriages, making it a majority.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--stretch  \"><figcaption class=\"media__caption  \">An LGTBQ activist uses her phone at the courtyard of India\u2019s Supreme Court in New Delhi on October 17, 2023. India\u2019s top court ruled on October 17 it did not have the power to legalise same-sex marriages and said any reform to that effect would have to come from parliament.\u2014AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two other judges are yet to speak.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruling comes five years after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1431295\">historic<\/a> 2018 judgement when the Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--stretch  \"><figcaption class=\"media__caption  \">An LGTBQ activist wearing a rainbow flag wristband gathers with others at the courtyard of India\u2019s Supreme Court in New Delhi on October 17, 2023. India\u2019s top court ruled on October 17 it did not have the power to legalise same-sex marriages and said any reform to that effect would have to come from parliament.\u2014AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Only Taiwan and Nepal allow same-sex unions in Asia, where largely conservative values still dominate politics and society.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1741884\">opposed<\/a> the petitions, calling them \u201curban elitist views\u201d and stating that parliament is the right platform to debate and legislate on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--stretch  \"><figcaption class=\"media__caption  \">An activist displays a tattoo reading \u201cBorn this way\u201d in the courtyard of India\u2019s Supreme Court in New Delhi on October 17, 2023, ahead of India\u2019s top court ruling on same-sex marriages. India\u2019s top court is expected to rule on same-sex marriages, with LGTBQ campaigners hoping for a landmark overhaul of partnerships in the world\u2019s most populous nation.\u2014AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It had also said that such marriages are not \u201ccomparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s top court on Tuesday said it cannot legalise same-sex marriages, with the chief justice of the country saying making such a law is the domain of parliament. A five-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, heard arguments in the case between April and May this year and pronounced its verdict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/17125508d126863.jpg?r=125523","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}