A review petition was moved in Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the top court's constitution bench judgement which denied a plea seek...

The Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, has stated that the circular by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) that denies adop...

Indian laws permit adoption of children by individuals, regardless of their marital status, according to the Supreme Court. The court is co...

"We went so far to hold untouchability as unconstitutional. I do not think any other Constitution says that. Traditions are there to the ex...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, while hearing arguments on a batch of pleas seeking legal validati...

The bench had verbally observed that Parliament is empowered to legislate on the subject of marriage and divorce. The bench Wednesday also ...

Elaborately referring to its 2018 judgement that decriminalised consensual gay sex, the top court had said it led to a situation where two ...

The resolution said, "The Joint meeting is of the unanimous opinion that in view of the sensitivity of the issue of same-sex marriage, havi...

A few petitioners, seeking legalisation of same-sex marriage, have challenged a provision of the Special Marriage Act that requires parties...

He referred to the law on widow re-marriage, and said the society did accept it then and the "law acted with alacrity" and the social accep...

The body under the Delhi government has also backed the demand for conferring adoption and succession rights for same-sex couples raised in...

The government has asserted the idea of an 'Indian family unit concept of a husband, a wife and children'. This may be the Western norm. Bu...

The statutory trepidation towards same-sex marriage is doubly unwarranted as the Indian state has in the past stepped outside 'accepted nor...

"Personal freedom and personal activities of individuals of the citizens are never being disturbed, regulated, questioned by the government...

The petitioners have sought a declaration to the effect that persons belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community have the same right to marriage as...

Petitioner Abhijit Iyer Mitra has contended in the petition that marriages between same sex couples are not possible despite the Supreme Co...

Women are more likely than men to initiate divorce, but they are no more likely than men to initiate breakups in a dating relationship, say...