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Same sex marriages cannot be given legal sanction: Government SECTIONS Share Synopsis The top court ruling, which allowed same sex couples the freedom to lead a dignified private life, only allows them the “basic right to companionship so long as such companionship is consensual, free from the vice of deceit, force, coercion, and does not result in the violation of fundamental rights of others”, it said, citing the court ruling in the Navtej Singh Johar case. Getty Images Representative image The Centre has opposed any move to accord legal sanction to same sex marriages in India. Decrimin...

Updated Feb 26, 2021 · 12:41 am Representative image. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP The Centre on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that in spite of decriminalisation of homosexuality under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, same-sex marriage was not a fundamental right in the country, Bar and Bench reported. In an affidavit on a batch of petitions on the matter, the Centre also submitted that a same-sex couple living together as partners and having a sexual relationship was not comparable with an “Indian family unit”. A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and A...

Pride organisers seek political backing to provide spl act rights for same-sex couples Pride organisers seek political backing to provide spl act rights for same-sex couples ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 28, 2021, 06:00 IST While parties such as VBA, CPI(M), NCP and the Congress have voiced support, BJP says promoters yet to send formal letter In a bid to garner support for same-sex marriage by bringing in modification in the Special Marriage Act, 1954, organisers of Pune Pride Parade 2021 have reached out to various political parties. While many political outfits have e...

ET Panache NEWS Powered by Country’s 1st LGBTQ+ workplace index is here. Keshav Suri feels it will make India Inc review diversity, hiring process Hotelier-activist Keshav Suri, one of the country’s most outspoken LGBTQIA+ advocates, through his non-profit Keshav Suri Foundation, partnered with Pride Circle, Stonewall UK and FICCI, to bring the Workplace Equality Index to India Inc. Synopsis The hotelier-activist feels that IWEI will help change how queer employees are perceived. Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark reading down of Section 37...

Updated Jan 16, 2021 | 16:45 IST A man allegedly sodomised a 12-year-old boy and then strangled him to death at a village in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan on Thursday night. Minor boy murdered in Rajasthan after being sexually assaulted [Representative image]  |  Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights On Thursday night, the accused took the minor boy into the fields, where he allegedly sodomised and murdered him. Irate villagers started pelting stones at the cops and even headed to demolish a religious place in the area This prompted senior police off...