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☆ US monitoring India's next steps after court declines to legalize same-sex marriage
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Kanishka Singh | Thomson Reuters | Kanishka Singh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Reuters In Washington Dc | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

India's top court on Tuesday declined to legalize same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government that the legislature is the right forum to rule on the issue. "The United States supports marriage equality globally," a U.S. State Department spokesperson said. Chandrachud, said on Tuesday the Supreme Court "cannot make law. Asia, a continent where conservative values still dominate society in many nations, largely lags behind the West in accepting same-sex marriage. The U.S. State Department said it regularly engages with the Indian government on human rights concerns, including over LGBT rights.

Persons: Anushree, India's, Narendra Modi's, Chandrachud, Kanishka Singh, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, U.S . State Department, United, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, State Department, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, United States, U.S, Asia, India . New Delhi, Washington

☆ India's top court declines to legalise same-sex marriage
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] A writer and member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT community) holds the pride flag while waiting to hear the judgement on same-sex marriage by the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - India's top court on Tuesday said it cannot legalise same-sex marriages, with the chief justice of the country saying making such a law is the domain of parliament. Chandrachud said there was a degree of "agreement and disagreement on how far we have to go" on same-sex marriages as he began reading his order. Two of the other four judges agreed with Chandrachud on the court not legalising same-sex marriages, making it a majority. The court ruling comes five years after a historic 2018 judgement when the Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex.

Persons: Anushree, Chandrachud, Narendra Modi's, Arpan Chaturvedi, Shilpa Jamkhandikar Organizations: REUTERS, Supreme, Rajesh, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Taiwan, Nepal, Asia

☆ Reactions as India's Chandrayaan-3 makes historic moon landing
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Arun Haryani, an enthusiast with his body painted in tri-colours, holds up a model of LVM3 M4, which was used in launching the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, in Ahmedabad on the eve of the moon landing, August 22. Following are some reactions:S. SOMANATH, INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO)CHAIRMAN"India is on the moon." NARENDRA MODI, PRIME MINISTER, INDIA"This moment is unforgettable. BILL NELSON, ADMINISTRATOR, NASA"Congratulations ISRO on your successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar South Pole landing! Congratulations to ISRO, Chandrayaan-3, and to all the people of India!!

Persons: Arun Haryani, Amit Dave, NARENDRA MODI, RAHUL GANDHI, SHAH RUKH KHAN, CHANDRACHUD, KHARGE, BILL NELSON, JOSEF ASCHBACHER, CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, PUSHPA KAMAL DAHAL, Narendra Modi, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Andrew Heavens, Toby Chopra Organizations: REUTERS, DELHI, Wednesday, Indian Space Research, SPACE, ISRO, OF, NASA, GENERAL, EUROPEAN SPACE, Chandrayaan, SOUTH, MINISTER, Thomson Locations: Ahmedabad, India, EUROPEAN, SOUTH AFRICA, NEPAL

☆ India PM Modi calls alleged Manipur sexual assault 'shameful'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Tanvi Mehta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI, July 20 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called the alleged sexual assault of women in the northeastern state of Manipur "shameful", urging heads of state governments to ensure the safety of women. Videos have surfaced on social media purporting to show two women paraded naked on a street in violence-hit Manipur after what townspeople on the videos say was a gang rape. State police have made the first arrest in the case, Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh said on Twitter, without specifying how many people were arrested. "In a constitutional democracy it is unacceptable," said Chief Justice of India D.Y. Reporting by Tanvi Mehta and Arpan Chaturvedi; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly and William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Biren Singh, Singh, Chandrachud, Modi, Tanvi Mehta, Arpan Chaturvedi, Sudipto Ganguly, William Mallard Organizations: Indian, State, Twitter, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Manipur, India

☆ Parliament, not courts, best place to debate same-sex marriage, India minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MUMBAI, April 21 (Reuters) - India's parliament, not a court of law, is the best place to debate the issue of same-sex marriage, an influential government minister said on Friday, as the country's top court heard appeals asking for such unions to be recognised. "The issue of marriage concerns society and society's opinion on this issue cannot be excluded. The voice of society is best reflected in parliament..." Yadav, who is minister for labour and the environment, said in the piece. Courts around the world have been debating and examining the issue of same-sex marriage and whether such unions can be recognised by law, but Asia largely lags the West in this regard. In an historic verdict in 2018, India's top court decriminalised homosexuality by scrapping a colonial-era ban on gay sex.

☆ India government calls same-sex marriage appeals 'urban elitist views'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Arpan Chaturvedi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW DELHI, April 17 (Reuters) - Court appeals in India to legalise same-sex marriage are "urban elitist views", the government has said in a new court document that seeks the dismissal of the challenge and says that parliament is the right platform to debate the matter. The government said it had to "take into account broader views and voice of all rural, semi-rural and urban population, views of religious denominations". Same-sex marriages are not as widely accepted in Asia as in the West. Last year Singapore ended a ban on gay sex but took steps to bar same-sex marriages. Japan is the only country among the Group of Seven rich nations that does not legally recognise same-sex unions, although the public broadly favours recognition.

NEW DELHI, March 27 (Reuters) - Indian banks must give defaulters an opportunity to be heard before they classify a loan account as fraud, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Banks cannot unilaterally declare an account as fraud without providing the defaulter the right to be heard, a top court bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said. However, there is no such requirement before registering a first information report (FIR) to declare a loan account as fraud, the bench observed. The apex court was examining judgements by the Telangana High Court and Gujarat High Court on the Reserve Bank of India (Frauds Classification and Reporting by Commercial Banks and Select Fls Directions 2016) master circular. Telangana High Court had ruled that not granting the right to be heard infringes on the borrowers' constitutional right.

☆ India court asks regulator to check on Adani's related party transactions
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Arpan Chaturvedi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Supreme Court of India also ordered the formation of an investor-protection panel amid sharp falls in the Adani group's shares. The Supreme Court asked SEBI to check "whether there has been a failure to disclose transactions with related parties" and "whether there was any manipulation of stock prices in contravention of existing laws". Seven listed companies of the Adani group have lost about $135 billion in value since the report was published. In its rebuttal, Adani said "all related party transactions are at arm's length, properly disclosed and reviewed/audited by statutory independent auditors". The court also formed a panel to be headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to examine how investor protection mechanisms can be strengthened.

☆ India's top court says investor interests must be protected after Adani report
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Arpan Chaturvedi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] The logo of the Adani Group is seen on a building, in Mumbai, India, January 27, 2023. REUTERS/Francis MascarenhasNEW DELHI, Feb 10 (Reuters) - India's top court, hearing two petitions related to large investor losses following a report by a U.S. short seller on the Adani conglomerate, said on Friday that investor interests need to be protected. The petitions were filed days after the Jan. 24 report by New York-based Hindenburg Research, which accused the Adani group of improper use of offshore tax havens and stock manipulation. The petitions were filed under a provision of Indian law that allows any individual to raise an issue concerning public interest before the Supreme Court. Last week, the group's flagship entity Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) pulled its secondary share offering, India's largest ever, because of the selloff.

☆ India's top court to consider cases against block on BBC documentary
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Arpan Chaturvedi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW DELHI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court will consider petitions next week against a government order blocking the sharing of clips of a BBC documentary that questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership during riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat. The Supreme Court will take up the petitions next week, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said in court on Monday. A New Delhi-based lawyer, M L Sharma, opposed the government's move in one of the petitions to the Supreme Court. He was exonerated in 2012 following an inquiry overseen by the Supreme Court and a petition questioning his exoneration was dismissed last year. The BBC has said the documentary was "rigorously researched" and involved a wide range of voices and opinions, including responses from people in Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

☆ India's top court grants all women the right to safe abortion
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

India’s top court on Thursday upheld the right of a woman to an abortion up to 24 weeks into pregnancy regardless of marital status, a decision widely hailed by women’s rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade that had legalized the procedure across the United States. “Even an unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks on par with married women,” said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of India’s Supreme Court, holding that a woman’s marital status could not decide her right to abort. She was referring to the case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court judgment in June.

NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a woman's lack of marital status could not deny her the choice to abort a pregnancy at any time up to 24 weeks, a decision hailed by women's rights activists. The right to abortion has proved contentious globally after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in June its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade that had legalised the procedure in the United States. "Even an unmarried woman can undergo abortion up to 24 weeks on par with married women," said Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of India's Supreme Court, holding that lack of marital status could not deprive a woman of the right. The court added that sexual assault by husbands can be classified as marital rape under the MTP law.

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