Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026), Nepal’s Supreme Court will hold a full bench hearing on the legality of registering same-sex marriages.

On June 26, 2023 (Ashar 12, 2080), the Court issued an interim order allowing same-sex couples to register their marriages under a temporary record system. Following this order, some local governments began registering same-sex marriages.

However, another petition was later filed by a lawyer, called Yuvaraj Safal, challenging this order, arguing that same-sex marriage registration is illegal under existing law. Hon.justice Sapana Malla and Hon.justice Sunil Pokherl’s bench, in their last judgement few months ago, decided that the case raises serious constitutional and legal questions, the supreme court referred it to a full bench.

Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026)’s hearing will decide:

Whether same-sex marriage registration is legally valid,

What the legal status is of marriages already registered under the interim order,

And whether Nepal’s Constitution’s guarantees of equality and freedom to marry include same-sex couples.

This makes Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026)’s hearing not just a legal proceeding, but a historic moment for equality, dignity, and human rights in Nepal.)

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Supreme Court Hearing on Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026) on Marriage Equality is not just a court date — it is a moral test

By Sunil Babu Pant

A. Marriage Equality Is Not Against Heterosexual Marriage — It Is Against Forced Lives, Silent Suicides, and Stolen Futures.

Marriage equality is not a threat to heterosexual marriage.

It does not weaken families.

It does not “convert” anyone.

It does not erase culture.

It does not destroy society.

What it does is far more simple — and far more urgent:

1. It allows one homosexual man who loves another homosexual man to live with dignity.

2. It allows one lesbian woman who loves another woman to form a family without fear.

3. It allowes a third gender person to marry a person they love.

4. It allows people to stop living lies.

5. It saves lives.

B. The woman who died quietly

She was a successful athlete. Strong. Disciplined. Respected.

But when her family discovered she was in love with another woman, her achievements meant nothing.

They rushed her into a marriage with a man — against her will, against her truth, against her heart.

She did not protest publicly.

She did not write slogans.

She did not file a case.

She died quietly.

Was marriage “protected” that day?

Or was a human life destroyed to preserve a lie?

C. The judge who could not stand his own justice

A few years ago, a senior judge — someone who delivered justice from the bench — took his own life.

Why?

Because his son discovered his relationship with another man.

Because he could not face his family.

Because he could not live the justice he preached.

A man who upheld the Constitution could not uphold his own truth.

Was law preserved that day?

Or was socital-hypocrisy exposed?

D. The invisible victims: women trapped in forced marriages

Thousands of gay men in Nepal are forced to marry women they do not love.

Some cannot even have physical relationships.

Some turn to painful, unnatural arrangements — artificial insemination, or finding another man to secretly impregnate their wife — just to prove they are “normal,” just to survive society’s cruelty.

And what about the women?

1. Women who unknowingly marry homosexual men.

2. Women deprived of love, intimacy, honesty, and companionship.

3. Women whose reproductive rights, emotional lives, and dignity are stolen — not by their husbands,

but by society’s denial.

Who speaks for their rights?

Marriage equality is not only about GSM/LGBTI people.

It is also about heterosexual women trapped in fraudulent marriages they never consented to. And Heterosexual men who are marrying a lesbian woman who never loves her husband because she loves another woman.

E. Marriage equality does NOT:

Turn heterosexuals into homosexuals.

End heterosexual marriage.

Replace family values.

Destroy culture.

People do not become gay because marriage equality exists.

They become honest.

People do not abandon heterosexual marriage.

They abandon forced marriages.

F. Marriage equality DOES:

Prevent forced marriages.

Reduce suicides.

Protect women.

Protect children.

Promote honesty.

Strengthen families — real families, not fake ones.

Align law with lived reality.

Restore dignity.

G. Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026) is not just a court date — it is a moral test

Magh 29 2082 (February 12 2026) is a crucial day — not only for Nepal’s GSM/LGBTI community, but for the judiciary itself.

This is not merely a legal case.

It is a question of conscience.

Will our judges stand with justice — or will they continue to witness silent suicides?

Will they protect families — or protect falsehoods?

Will they uphold dignity — or defend discrimination?

The Constitution speaks of equality.

Humanity speaks of love.

History speaks of justice.

Now the court must speak too.

H. Marriage equality is not about changing who you love.

It is about allowing people to love who they already are.

And that — far from destroying society — is what saves it.