Does anyone have fundamental right to marry? Supreme Court on same-sex marriage pleas
India TodayThe Supreme Court constitution bench on Tuesday, while hearing the batch of petitions seeking recognition of same-sex marriage for the 8th day, questioned whether anyone has a fundamental right to marry or there is no right at all. Responding to Dwivedi's submissions, CJI said, "To state an extreme that there is no fundamental right to marry. SENIOR ADVOCATE ARVIND DATAR Datar said, "If a law has been made to recognise interfaith or inter-caste marriage, we must test the act with the stated objective by which the parliament enacted it." To this, the CJI said, "Even if they are right in asserting that same-sex couples can benefit from the institution of marriage even then you cannot challenge legislation saying that only a part of the community has been included."