Women have same rights as men: SC on Sabarimala ban
July 18, 2018  16:30
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The Supreme Court has backed the entry of women to Kerala's famed Sabarimala temple.


"Once you open a temple, everyone can go," said the Supreme Court on Wednesday while hearing the case of an arbitrary, temple-enforced ban on women between 10 and 50 years from entering the Sabarimala in Kerala.


A five-judge bench of the Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Rohinton Nariman, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra are hearing petitions filed by Indian Young Lawyers Association and others challenging the ban in vogue for several years.

The court said women have same rights as men and there is no concept of a private temple.

In October last year, the top court referred the issue to a Constitution bench, framing five "significant" questions. The chief is these is whether the traditional ban amounts to discrimination against women and violates their fundamental rights under the Constitution.

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