New Delhi: Supreme Court Expressing serious concerns over allowing individuals to challenge religious practices, on Thursday said it would break all religious and constitutional courts as thousands of people would clog courts with PILs seeking annulment of these customs and norms based on their self-assessment of these practices. CJI Surya Kant, a bench of Justices … Read more
New Delhi: The custom of barring menstruating women from entering the temple was abolished in 2018, the chief priest of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple told reporters on Friday Supreme Court Dhananjay Mahapatra reports that the right and wrong of the idolatry model that is central to Hinduism is judicially indeterminate because each deity is represented … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Nagpur Parsi panchayat’s response to a Parsi woman’s petition challenging the constitutional validity of a religious practice that excommunicated her for marrying a non-Parsi man. She called the custom sexist as the rule did not apply to Parsi men married to non-Parsi women.Senior advocate Shyam Divan, … Read more
New Delhi: Bench consisting of 9 judges Supreme Court Complaints about discrimination against women in places of worship will be heard, including keralaof Sabarimala Temple.The hearing is scheduled to begin on April 7 and is expected to conclude on April 22. The composition of the nine-judge bench will be notified separately by the Chief Justice … Read more
