Continuing his opposition to same-sex marriage, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for the Union government, claimed that the word 'spouse' meant husband and wife. Mehta added that there was no purpose to filing a specific reply in regards to Citizenship Act to recognise same-sex marriage as the term 'marriage' is a term associated with heterosexual couples.
The Delhi High Court has listed a number of pleas in pursuit of the recognition and registration of same-sex marriages under the law for final hearing on 30 November, reported Live Law.
The bench was hearing petitions filed by Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Vaibhav Jain, Dr Kavita Arora, an Overseas Citizenship of India card holder Joydeep Sengupta, and his partner Russell Blaine Stephens.