India intends to seek an education session on same-sex relationships before ruling on a case involving a lesbian couple.Justice N Anand Venkatesh was set to give a ruling at the Madras High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on the case involving the couple, aged 20 and 22, who had fled their homes in Madurai to be together.The families of the couple opposed the relationship.
Parents of one of the women filed kidnapping charges against Shiva Kumar, who runs the LGBT+ rights charity Nirangal in Chennai where the pair had sought refuge.