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A nine-judge seat of the Supreme Court has commenced the last proceeding connected petitions relating to favoritism against women astatine spiritual places, including Sabarimala Temple, and connected the ambit and scope of spiritual state practised by aggregate faiths.
The Bench is acceptable to specifiically look into Articles 25 and 26 that woody with state of religion and spiritual denomination.
In the erstwhile proceeding connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026), Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for Centre said restricting a peculiar sex wrong a specifc property radical from entering a spot of worship is not discrimination.
The Constitution Bench comprised Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices B.V. Nagarathna, M.M. Sundresh, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Aravind Kumar, Augustine George Masih, Prasanna B. Varale, R. Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi.
In September 2018, a five-judge Constitution bench, by a 4:1 bulk verdict, had lifted the prohibition that prevented women of menstruating property from entering the Ayyappa shrine astatine Sabarimala successful Kerala and held that the centuries-old Hindu spiritual signifier was amerciable and unconstitutional.
However, successful 2019, different five-judge seat headed by the past CJI Ranjan Gogoi, referred the contented of favoritism against women astatine assorted places of worship to a larger bench.
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