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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, drew a controversial parallel between same-sex marriages and incest by presenting a hypothetical situation.
Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said: “…Is the existence of two spouses who belong to a binary gender necessary for the requirement of marriage or has our law now progressed sufficiently to contemplate that the existence of binary genders, maybe, is not necessary for your definition of marriage.”
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The century-old the law against homosexuality was imposed on pre-independent India in accordance with the Christian principles on which the British kingdom was founded.