Indian LGBT+ campaigners have taken their case for marriage equality in the Delhi High Court. And the court’s bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan have agreed to listen to the case with an open mind.
While noting they hadn’t made a legal decision yet, they commented ‘changes are happening across the world’. However India’s Solicitor General Tushar Mehta is opposing the LGBT+ petitioners.
He said: ‘Our culture and law don’t recognize the concept of same-sex marriages.’ The case comes almost exactly two years after the Supreme Court of India struck down the British colonial law against homosexuality in India.