'Non-heterosexual couples can't adopt jointly': India's SC in same-sex marriage verdict (www.hindustantimes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Unmarried couples, including queer couples, can jointly adopt child: CJI

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

A five-judge Constitution bench of the top court on Tuesday unanimously refused to accord legal recognition to same-sex marriages under the Special Marriage Act, ruling that it is within the Parliament's ambit to change the law for validating such a union.

Writing a 247-page separate judgement, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud struck down Regulation 5(3) of the CARA, saying it is violative of the rights of the queer community and that the CARA has exceeded its authority in barring unmarried couples from adopting children.

The five-judge bench, however, passed a 3:2 verdict against adoption rights for the LGBTQIA++ community.

I have no idea how the SC of India works. Do these articles contradict each other, or are they blind people describing different parts of the same elephant?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The verdict u linked was majority one. The verdict the commentator linked was the minority one.

The same-sex marriage petition was rejected based on a 3-2 bench.

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