Same Sex Marriage- Supreme Court Constitution Bench Hearing-DAY-2- LIVE UPDATES

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi begins his submissions for the day.

Rohatgi: The letter is dated yesterday. Your lordships issued notice five months ago. If you had somebody you could have issued the letter earlier. Unnecessary.

SG Mehta: That doesn't dilute my request.

Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi: My lords I am challenging a central law. Merely because it happens to be in the concurrent list, there is no rationale to say that the petition will be bad for non joinder of states.

CJI DY Chandrachud: So you've told them now that the matter is going on? That's excellent! So now it's not that the states are unaware. You've informed them.

SG Mehta: Before the petitioners start, I have something to place on record. In continuation of my request that states should be heard, UOI has written letters to all Chief Secretaries...