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Nobody is dying for want of marriage certificate: Centre
Nobody is dying for want of marriage certificate: Centre
IANS / Updated: May 25, 2021, 06:00 IST
Centre on Monday opposed the urgent hearing in Delhi
High Court on a batch of pleas seeking recognition to same-sex marriages in India under the
Hindu Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act and Foreign Marriage Act.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, submitted before a division bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and
Amit Bansal that law officers were struggling with Covid-19 issues amid the pandemic and the government is focussing on urgent issues.
As a counsel argued that the matter requires urgent hearing as it affected the daily lives of lakhs of people. Mehta submitted, You don t need
Nobody is dying for want of marriage certificate: Centre in HC on same-sex marriage
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New Delhi, May 24 : The Centre on Monday opposed the urgent hearing in Delhi High Court on a batch of pleas seeking recognition to same-sex marriages in India under the Hindu Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act and Foreign Marriage Act.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, submitted before a division bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Amit Bansal that law officers were struggling with COVID-19 issues amid the pandemic and the government is focussing on urgent issues.
The hearing on the matter was adjourned to July 6. (File photo: PTI)
While seeking adjournment of petitions demanding recognition of same-sex marriages under existing law, the Centre told the Delhi High Court on Monday that there are other urgent matters that need consideration.
Centre added that “nobody is dying because of the lack of marriage registration.” The hearing on the matter was adjourned to July 6.
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta submitted before the court that the state is dealing with a pandemic at present and there are other urgent matters, which need consideration.
“As a government, our focus in terms of urgency is on urgent, imminent issues,” submitted Mehta, adding that law officers are also dealing with pandemic-related cases.
Don t Need Marriage Certificate for Hospitals : Centre Pans Urgency of Same-Sex Marriage Pleas Nobody is dying because they don t have marriage certificate, the Solicitor General told the Delhi HC in response to senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy noting that lack of legal validity affected access to treatment.
Delhi high court. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: The Centre told the Delhi high court that an urgent hearing of pleas seeking recognition to same-sex marriages was not warranted under current conditions.
“You don’t need marriage certificate for hospitals, nobody is dying because they don’t have marriage certificate,” the Union government said, according to