The Indian Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this case in April and should 2023.
It issued a verdict on 17 October 2023, declining to recognise similar-sex marriages below the SMA. On three July 2022, a same-sex couple, Abhishek Ray and Chaitanya Sharma, acquired married in a conventional Hindu ceremony in Kolkata alongside family and pals. In August 2006, the federal government of West Bengal printed the West Bengal Hindu Marriage Registration Rules, 2010.
The foundations present for the registration of all Hindu marriages solemnised in West Bengal. In 2010, the federal government of Uttarakhand published the Uttarakhand Compulsory Registration of Marriage Rules, 2010. The foundations provide for the registration of all marriages solemnized in Uttarakhand no matter the religion of the events.
The Andhra Pradesh Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act, 2002, which obtained the assent of Governor C. Rangarajan on 21 May 2002, was in drive in the mixed state of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. All marriages performed in Uttar Pradesh should be registered with the Uttar Pradesh Marriage Registration Rules, 2017.
The rules present for the registration of all marriages solemnized in the state regardless of the religion or caste of the parties.