Gay couple exchange rings in front of Supreme Court, watch
New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, on Tuesday refused to grant any legal sanction to same-sex marriage.In reaction, today a same sex couple exchanged rings in front of Supreme Court. Later, one of them took to X and posted the video that has gone viral.In an X post (formerly Twitter) Kotia shared a video and captioned the video as follows, “Yesterday hurt. Today, @utkarsh__saxena and I went back to the court that denied our rights, and exchanged rings. So this week wasn’t about a legal loss, but our engagement. We’ll return to fight another day.”In the comment box, many user were seen congratulating the same sex couple.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court gave decision with a 3:2 majority, holding that a civil union cannot be recognised under the Constitution. It also asked the Union government to set up a high-powered committee to be chaired by the Cabinet Secretary to take steps to decide the rights and social entitlements of same-sex couples.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Yesterday hurt. Today, <a href=”https://twitter.com/utkarsh__saxena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@utkarsh__saxena</a> and I went back to the court that denied our rights, and exchanged rings. So this week wasn't about a legal loss, but our engagement. We'll return to fight another day. <a href=”https://t.co/ALJFIhgQ5I”>pic.twitter.com/ALJFIhgQ5I</a></p>— Kotia (@AnanyaKotia) <a href=”https://twitter.com/AnanyaKotia/status/1714554179379728700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
