Supreme Court: Women of all age group should be allowed in Sabarimala temple
Posted on: 28/Sep/2018 12:02:14 PM
The constitutional bench of the Supreme Court gave the historically important verdict today (Friday, 28th September) that women of all age groups must be allowed to enter the famous Sabarimala temple.
With this verdict, the ban imposed by the Sabarimala Devasthanam for women of the age group from 10 to 50 years stands cancelled.
This verdict was given after the enquiry of a petition submitted to the Supreme Court on the above ban.
The Indian Young Lawyers’ Associaton and various prominent sections had submitted the petitions. The Supreme Court had recommended for a sitting of the constitutional bench on this issue on 13th October last year.
During the review, the judges had raised various questions such as will the system of not allowing the women to enter the temple be tantamount to gender inequality treatment and whether it is not a violation of the basic human rights as per the Indian Constitution. The judges have recommended that the constitutional bench should consider these aspects and then give the verdict.
A panel of the constitutional bench of 5 judges including Chief Justice Mishra, and judges R. F. Nariman, A. M. Kanvilkar, D. Y. Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra conducted the enquiry for 5 continuous days.
Subsequently, the judges had adjourned the verdict to 1st August. Accordingly, the constitutional bench of 5 judges including the Chief Justice Mishra released the verdict today.
As per the verdict, the Supreme Court has ordered that India treats women as Goddesses and as such, it is not right to consider them as the weaker lot and so, women of all age groups must be allowed to enter the famous Sabarimala temple.
It is noteworthy that earlier, in an answer to a question put up to the state government of Kerala, it was responded that the state government supports the stand that women of all age groups must be allowed to enter the temple.
