![]() "There is a fundamental right to marry and we should be afforded that right to marry just like any other heterosexual couple," Saattvic told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call from Vancouver in Canada. That is why Saattvic, who goes by one name, asked the Delhi high court to allow him to marry his boyfriend - one of six petitions made by LGBT+ couples in September 2020 to legalise same-sex marriage, with a final hearing due on Tuesday. Same-sex marriages are illegal in India despite the Supreme Court scrapping a colonial-era ban on gay sex in 2018 - a decision that LGBT+ Indians say they had hoped would pave the way for more equal rights, including marriage and adoption. NEW DELHI, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Swept up in a whirlwind romance after meeting at a Bollywood party in Mumbai, Saattvic and Gaurav Bhatti dreamed of celebrating their love with a typical big, fat Indian wedding. Saattvic and Gaurav Bhatti are among at least six LGBT+ couples asking India’s high court to allow same-sex marriage
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