Same Sex Couple

The Court observed that the Petitioner submits that while it may have been true that the family members are named in the complaint against her, she is now free and is leading her own life free from any influence of any family member.

The plea prays for restraining the Consulate General of India in New York from declaring a spouse of an OCI applying for an OCI card to be ineligible for the same merely on the ground that they are in a same-sex marriage or queer (non-heterosexual) marriage.

The Delhi High Court has referred plea filed by a gay couple for recognition of their marriage under Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 to a divisional bench.