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Supreme Court will hear a plea seeking recognition of same sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act. The plea states that people from the LGBTQIA community should have the same right to marry whoever they wish as heteronormative couples do. #SupremeCourtofIndia

Court hears plea filed by petitioners before the High Court seeking transfer of their pleas.

SG Tushar Mehta requests court to let him say something.
SG: There are two options before your lordships, the matters were right to be heard before the Delhi HC, Milords will get a view of the HC then.

SC: what we will do is, we will transfer all before us, so that we can hear them together, and those who want to appear virtually can do so..

SC: Several batch of petitions pending before the various HCs, we are of the view that they should be transferred to the Supreme Court. We accordingly direct that all these petitions shall be transferred before us.

SC: Any petitioner who desires to address this court through virtual platform can do so, if they suffer from a difficulty in appearing before us phsyically.

SC: Notice issued in all these petitions and written submissions be filed on behalf of the petitioners and the Union before the matter is listed for directions.

SC: Nodal officers shall be appointed on both the sides, who would work on compilation of submission from both the sides. Matter shall now be listed on March 13, 2023 for directions.

SC: We request to sit down and chalk out the issues you would like to argue, so that we can hear it accordingly.

SC appoints Advocate Arundhati Katju as nodal officer for the petitioners and Advocate Kanu Aggarwal as nodal officer for the UoI.

BREAKING: SC Transfers All Pleas Pending Before HCs Seeking Recognition Of Same Sex Marriage To Itself; Directs UOI To File Reply
@AishwaryaIyer24 reports
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