In Sabarimala case, Hindutva party urges SC to revisit 30-year-old Hindu order

In Sabarimala case, Hindutva party urges SC to revisit 30-year-old Hindu order

Sabarimala Temple in Kerala (file photo) New Delhi: In the middle of the ‘faith and fundamental rights’ debate over the customary ban on women aged 10 to 50 from entering the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, a Hindu political party on Tuesday asked the nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court to review its 30-year-old judgment declaring Hinduism … Read more

‘Each god has unique rituals’: Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

'Each god has unique rituals': Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

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