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Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v. Union of India

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Reported as [2023] 16 S.C.R. 1209
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S. Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha JJ.
Decided 17 October 2023

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Issues for consideration: The issues were primarily two-fold: (a) the status of the right to marry for LGBTQ+ couples and (b) depending upon the answer to the fi rst, the remedy that must ensue. The petitioners (members of LGBTQ community)asserte d that marriage is an evolving social institution, capable of embracing the union of two willing non-heterosexual, queer or LGBTQ+ (used interchangeably) individuals and necessitating state recognition. On the other, the respondents asserted that the institution of marriage rests on certain constant and unchanging premises, the most prominent of which

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