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Women have a right to pray, can now enter Sabarimala Temple, rules Supreme Court

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Channel: ThePrint · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Supreme Court said Friday that women of all ages could enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. The verdict was issued with a 4:1 majority by a Constitution bench, with the lone woman member dissenting.

The court observed that barring the entry of women aged between 10 and 50 years, or when they are in the menstruation age, to the Sabarimala temple was not an essential part of the religion.

“The law and society are tasked with the task to act as levellers,” Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said. “Devotees of Ayyappa do not constitute a separate religious denomination,” he added.

Denying Hindu women entry into the temple violated their fundamental right to practice religion, the bench added.

The verdict came more than 12 years after a plea was filed challenging the Kerala High Court’s 1991 order that upheld the practice of banning temple entry to women between the age of 10 and 50.



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