New Delhi, Apr 1(UNI) Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Saturday moved the Supreme Court by filing an Intervention Application (IA) seeking to be a party in the same sex marriage case, and opposed the pleas seeking legalisation of same sex "marriage".
Jamiat Ulama-i- Hind had told the Apex Court that as a legal institution, marriage between the opposite sexes has been central to the legal regime of India.
"Concept of same-sex marriage will attack family system. Among Muslims, marriage is a sacred contract leading to the union of a biological man and a biological woman. Invoking principle of constitutional morality to justify same-sex marriage based on the fact that in some parts of the world this practice is legal, can be very harmful to social order of the other part," Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, in its plea filed before the Supreme Court, said.