Same Sex Marriage- Supreme Court Hearing- DAY-6-LIVE UPDATES

The bench has risen for the day. The arguments will resume on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

CJI DY Chandrachud: Mr Dwivedi, just give us a page on your submissions.

SG Mehta: There is no treaty obligation argument permissible. Please see judgement on this.

SG Mehta: Judicial pronouncements of other countries cannot be relied upon because cultural social ethos, jurisprudence is different of all nations.

SG Mehta: Let's see what the view of our court is. Please see. Article 19- Freedom of love, expression, doesn't mean institutionally recognised form. A friendship is an expression.

SG Mehta: Right now it would be hazardous to make any guess work on that. That's my point.

SG Mehta: This movement started 20-30 years ago. We don't have any data. The first or second generation is here. So what is the effect on children, very few may have adopted - there is no reliable data.

SG Mehta reads a judgment on whether courts can adjudicate upon the issue or it should be left to the legislature.

SG Mehta: Not comparable to transgender persons.

SG Mehta: Persons in L or G category of LGBTQ, they're not stigmatised or getting problems.

CJI DY Chandrachud: They're very badly stigmatised. In fact the parliamentary debate on the 1954 Act shows that there was a considerable degree of stigma attached.