Articles tagged with: marriage
What ‘the learned judge wanted to say’: SC severely limits infamous ‘sex equals marriage’ judgement
The Supreme Court has finally avenged social media’s June 2013 furore over Madras high court justice CS Karnan’s “ sex equals marriage” judgment , by holding that that judgment was only applicable one-off to the facts of the case it decided. Advocate Uday Gupta, through senior advocate MR Calla, had...
Government to fight judiciary over Act making marriage registration compulsory
The law providing for compulsory registration of marriages solemnised under any religion in India is a step away from enactment but is liable to judicial scrutiny after it gets enacted. The Rajya Sabha yesterday passed by voice vote The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill 2012, report...
Sex, marriage, gender: If judges mean well, why do they sometimes talk so badly?
Monday’s Madras high court judgment by Justice Karnan caused debate, outrage and counter-outrage in and between traditional, new and social media, which unfortunately missed the wood for the trees, argues Prachi Shrivastava.
What does the ‘pre-marital-sex = marriage’ Madras HC judgment actually say? Read it here
