Two Women Get Married, A First In Odisha  

Odisha: Odisha State gets first of its kind same sex marriage. Two girls from the state of Odisha got married on Saturday making it the first same sex marriage in the state.

The two girls, Sabitri Parida (27) of Tantiapalli village in Mahakapara and Monalisa Nayak (28) of Srirampur village under Pattamundai police limits , were studying together in a school in Cuttack district. They soon started liking each other and fell in love. Both of them joined the same organisation and were working together which led to their relationship growing stronger. As in normal families with girls attaining marriageable age, the parents of both the girls started looking out for prospective bridegrooms.

This made them apprehensive about the future of their relationship but with recent Supreme Court verdict decriminalising ‘homosexuality’ under section 377 of the IPC, they came out in the open and decided to marry. They took legal help from an advocate and filed affidavits before the Family Court stating that they would spend the rest of their lives together and also swore that they would not complain if any problems cropped up in their relationship in future. One of the girls father has complained to the police that she was being forced to marry and

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