A group of over 400 parents has written to Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, urging that their LGBTQIA++ wards be granted the right to “marriage equality”. The letter by ‘Sweekar-The Rainbow Parents’ assumes significance as it comes when a five-judge constitution bench headed by the CJI is hearing a batch of petitions seeking legal validation for same-sex marriage for the fourth day.

“We desire to see our children and children-in-law find final legal acceptance for their relationship under the Special Marriage Act in our country. We are certain that a nation as big as ours which respects its diversity and stands for the value of exclusion, will open its legal gate of marriage equality to our children too.