Even though same-sex marriages are not legal in India,but that did not stop a Gurgaon court from effectively recognizing a marriage between two lesbians.
According reports reaching here while granting police protection to a runaway lesbian couple from Khekada village in Baghpat, additional sessions judge Vimal Kumar recorded matter-of-factly that Beena and Savita claimed to be married to each other.
Their statements were recorded in the order without any indication that such a marriage had no legal status. It stated, "We have married to each other on July 22, 2011 of our own free will without coercion, duress, fraud, misrepresentation etc."
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