
What legalisation of same sex marriage will mean in India | In Focus podcast
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Next month, the Supreme Court of India will listen to finally hearings on the issue of legal recognition for same-sex marriages. A number of petitions have been filed seeking this recognition. The case follows the landmark Putuswami judgement of 2017, affirming the right to privacy as a fundamental right and then the Nathij Johar judgement of 2018 which decriminalised same-sex relationships. To explain to us what this case is about and its ramifications, we have with us today Arvind Narayan, a lawyer working in the area of human rights and LGBTQ plus rights at Zim Prange University.
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