Supriya Chakraborty, along with his partner Abhay Dang, a homosexual couple who met in Hyderabad in 2012, filed a petition seeking legal recognition of their marriage on November 14 last year and appeared at the first admission hearing on November 25 the same year.
Eleven months later, responding to the final verdict, which was ruled unanimously against legalising same sex marriage on Tuesday, Mr. Supriya told The Hindu: “We are deeply disappointed by the judgment and exhausted today. Though the court has reiterated that queer people have the right to form relationships, they stopped well short of legal recognition.”
“However, we feel proud that we fought this battle. Though we have lost, we remain hopeful that one day we will have full marriage equality. Lots of dinner-table conversations were initiated because of this case,” he added.
