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A Brief Report on Ranjan Gogoi's Case and a Declaration by Madras High Court on Transsexual as a Bride

24 April 2019 has been a very engrossed day for Indian judiciary where the Supreme Court has delivered an important rationale over certain cases. Along with carrying out an important proceeding in the case of CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
Madras, high court too delivered a landmark judgement on referring transsexual as a bride.

The detailed information about the aforesaid reports are as under:

IN THE CASE OF CJI RANJAN GOGOI

Supreme Court has asked a Punjab-based lawyer to furnish material in support of his claim that there was a conspiracy to frame Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment allegation raised by a sacked Supreme Court employee.
It has already being a raging topic which was demanding attention. Allegations on the CJI were spread like a wildfire. Finally, the Supreme Court took a step to carry out the proceeding.

NEXT IS THE MADRAS HIGH COURT DECISION ON REFERRING TRANSSEXUAL AS BRIDE

Madras High Court has held that as per Hindu Marriage Act, a transsexual is also a "bride" and the term would not necessarily refer only to a woman. Now there has been an alteration among the provisions because earlier there wasn't any clear specification of transsexual in Hindu Marriage Act.

Well, this was for the day. I hope you gained some important knowledge from this...Happy reading :)

Author: Shivanshu Katare

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