Delhi High Court To Hear Pleas Over Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriages Next Month
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The Delhi High Court granted time to the parties for filing replies and rejoinders in the pleas seeking a declaration recognising same-sex marriages under the special, Hindu and foreign marriage laws, and listed it for final hearing on November 30.
The Delhi High Court has listed for final hearing separate pleas, including by two same-sex couples, seeking a declaration recognising same-sex marriages under the special, Hindu and foreign marriage laws.
A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh granted time to the parties for filing replies and rejoinders in the matter and listed it for final hearing on November 30.
In the first petition, Abhijit Iyer Mitra and three others have contended that same-sex marriages are not possible despite the Supreme Court decriminalising consensual homosexual acts and sought a declaration to recognise them under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) and Special Marriage Act (SMA).
The two other pleas are -- one filed by two women seeking to get married under the SMA and challenging provisions of the statute to the extent that it does not provide for same-sex marriages, and the other filed by two men who got married in the US but were denied registration of their marriage under the Foreign Marriage Act (FMA).
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