Can’t legalise same-sex marriage: Government

 New Delhi:  Marriage between same-sex couples is "not recognised by our laws, legal system, society and our values," the government's pinnacle attorney instructed the Delhi High Court, opposing a petition to legalise homosexual marriages.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta made the submission as the High Court heard a petition on legalizing same-sex marriages below the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) and Special Marriage Act.

Mr Mehta said: "Our laws, our legal system, our society and our values do now not comprehend marriage, which is a sacrament, between same-sex couples".

He stated the petition asking for homosexual marriages to be legalized was once "not permissible" for two reasons. "Firstly, the petition is asking the courtroom to legislate and secondly, any remedy granted will run opposite to a number of statutory provisions. Unless courtroom does violence to quite a number laws, this can't be done," stated the Solicitor General.

Mr Mehta additionally stated that beneath the Hindu Marriage Act, a range of provisions regulating marriages or prohibited relationships speak of husband and wife. "Who would be assigned these roles the place a same-sex couple used to be concerned," he questioned.

Delhi High Court Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan discovered that matters have been altering the world over, however it may or may now not be relevant to India.

The courtroom wondered the want for a petition, pronouncing that human beings who claimed to be affected had been well-educated and may want to themselves method the court.

"Why must we entertain the PIL," the judges said.

The information for the petitioner stated the affected humans have been no longer coming ahead as they feared reprisals and favored a Public Interest Litigation.

The courtroom requested the attorney performing for the petitioner, Abhijit Iyer Mitra, to supply small print of the men and women who had been no longer accepted to register their same-sex marriage.

The judges directed the petitioners, who include homosexual rights activists, to place data about their efforts to register such marriages and stated they would hear the case once more on October 21.

The petition had argued that regardless of the Supreme Court decriminalizing consensual gay relationships, homosexual marriages have been nevertheless no longer possible. 

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