On 17 October 2023, a five-judge Constitution Bench unanimously declined to recognise a fundamental right to marry for queer persons under the constitutional framework, and declined to read down the Special Marriage Act, 1954 to extend its substantive marriage architecture to same-sex couples. A 3:2 split on the civil-union question — Chief Justice Chandrachud and Justice Kaul supporting a civil-union framework; the majority declining — produced the disposition's most substantively contested doctrinal dimension. A digest of the holding, the doctrinal architecture, and the relationship with the *NALSA* and *Navtej* lines.