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No legal recognition for same-sex marriages

Case Title: Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty etc v. Union of India.

The Supreme Court in October refused to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages, with the majority leaving it to the legislature to provide non-heterosexual couples the right to enter into a legally recognised marriage, a civil union or to adopt a child.
All the judges were unanimous in holding that there is no unqualified right to marriage and that same-sex couples cannot claim this as a fundamental right.

The Court also unanimously turned down a challenge to provisions of the Special Marriage Act.