Sabarimala Majority Ruling: Review Pending, Scope Widened

Recently, the Supreme Court has deferred its decision on review of 2018 Sabarimala verdict until a larger Bench examines broader issues such as essentiality of religious practices and constitutional morality.

• The 2018 Sabrimala Temple verdict had held unconstitutional the practice of barring women of menstrual age from entering the temple.
• Concededly, the debate about the constitutional validity of practices entailing into restriction of entry of women generally in the place of worship is not limited to this case, but also arises in respect of entry of Muslim women in a Durgah/Mosque as also in relation to Parsi women married ....