Senior Counsel Mukul Rohatgi Thursday made an urgent mentioning before the Supreme Court seeking open court hearing of the review petitions challenging the top court's verdict in the same-sex marriage case.
Retired Justice S Muralidhar recently opined that there were gaps in the way arguments were presented by the petitioners in the marriage equality case before the Supreme Court of India.
We went through the constitution bench decisions from 2010 to the present day (filtered on the Supreme Court website) and found that the CJI was in the dissenting minority only thrice in that period!
A review petition was filed before the Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the top court's October 17 verdict refused to recognize the right of same-sex couples to enter into marriages or have civil unions.
He said that out of all the Constitution Bench judgments rendered by the Supreme Court of India from its inception in 1950 till date, there have been only thirteen instances where the CJI was in minority.