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Supriyo a.k.a Supriya Chakraborty & Abhay Dang v. Union of India thr. Its Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice & other connected cases (2023) are a collection of landmark cases of the Supreme Court of India, which were filed to consider whether to extend right to marry and establish a family to sexual and gender minority individuals in India. [4]
On 25 November 2022, the Supreme Court of India agreed to hear a case, Supriyo v. Union of India, challenging the government's refusal to recognise same-sex marriages under the Special Marriage Act. The lead plaintiffs were Supriyo Chakraborty and Abhay Dang, a couple from Hyderabad.
In India, landmark court decisions come most frequently from the Supreme Court of India, which is the highest judicial body in India. High courts of India may also make such decisions, particularly if the Supreme Court chooses not to review the case or if it adopts the holding of the lower court.
However, the case Supriyo v. Union of India (2023) stopped short of ruling in favor a right to marriage, civil union or adoption for same-sex couples under existing law, instead placing the onus on Parliament and the Cabinet to pass successive legislation to define the rights of same-sex couples.
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National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.
Supreme Court Advocates-on Record Association vs Union of India – 1993 [3] In re Special Reference 1 of 1998 [ 4 ] Over the course of the three cases, the court evolved the principle of judicial independence to mean that no other branch of the state, – including the legislature and the executive, – would have any say in the appointment of ...