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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) said courts cannot springiness up their work to judicially reappraisal spiritual practices to analyse if they interruption cardinal liberties, though the superior work to usher successful betterment and guarantee societal payment laic with the legislature.
Appearing earlier a nine-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant successful the Sabarimala reappraisal hearing, amicus curiae elder advocator K. Parameshwar, said the judiciary could neither stay a passive perceiver nor an overzealous reformer.
“Constitutional courts cannot springiness up their responsibility. It is not a question of power. It is the work of a law court,” Chief Justice Kant observed.
Mr. Parameshwar contended that the validity of spiritual rights should not beryllium judged based connected factors specified arsenic rationality. He said the word ‘religious denomination’ indispensable beryllium fixed a broader meaning.
The tribunal reserved the lawsuit for judgement aft 16 days of marathon hearing.
In September 2018, a Constitution Bench had lifted the prohibition that prohibited women betwixt the ages of 10 and 50 from entering the Ayyappa shrine astatine Sabarimala and held that the centuries-old Hindu spiritual signifier was amerciable and unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was referred to a larger Bench the adjacent twelvemonth aft the framing of broader issues connected spiritual freedoms and the grade to which courts could intervene successful their practice.
The nine-judge Bench heard a wide array of petitions cutting crossed practices successful antithetic religions, including the close of Muslim women to participate mosques and the introduction of Parsi women into the Agiary aft inter-faith marriage.
