In an historic verdict in 2018, India's top court decriminalised homosexuality by scrapping a colonial-era ban on gay sex. "As petitioners we have received wide support from people from all walks of life and it does not seem to me that most Indians feel injured by the thought of some loving families getting legal rights," one of the litigants in the current case, businessman Uday Raj Anand, told Reuters after the government filed the reply in court. The court cannot be asked "to change the entire legislative policy of the country deeply embedded in religious and societal norms", it said. is not comparable with the Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children," the ministry argued. "Living together as partners and having sexual relationship by same sex individuals.
The Ministry of Law believes that while there may be various forms of relationships in society, the legal recognition of marriage is for heterosexual relationships and the state has a legitimate interest in maintaining this, according to the filing seen by Reuters, which has not been made public.
NEW DELHI, March 12 (Reuters) - The Indian government opposes recognising same-sex marriages, it said in a filing to the Supreme Court on Sunday, urging the court to reject challenges to the current legal framework lodged by LGBT couples.
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