State and Regulation of Temples

Constitutional Provisions

  • Article 25(2) allows the state to make laws for regulating activities associated with religious practice.
  • Article 26 provides all religious denominations the freedom to manage religious affairs.
  • Entry 28 of the concurrent list under Schedule VII talks about charities, charitable institutions, religious endowments and religious institutions.

Judicial Pronouncements

  • In Indian Young Lawyers’ Association v. State of Kerala (the Sabarimala case) and Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018), the Supreme Court reiterated the need to eliminate “historical discrimination which has pervaded certain identities”’, “systemic discrimination against disadvantaged groups”.
  • In Shirur Mutt judgment (1954), Supreme Court struck down the Madras Hindu ....
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