Same-sex marriage an urban elitist concept: Centre

Marriage is an institution which can be created, recognised, conferred with legal sanctity, and regulated only by the competent legislature, the Centre said, digging in its heels for an intense fight with the judiciary which seems keen to build upon its order to de-criminalise sex between consenting adults to confer more rights on persons having alternative sexual orientation.

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