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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a larger bench a petition that challenged a ban on women of 10-50 age group from entering a temple in Kerala.
Justice S.B. Sinha referred the matter to a three-judge bench.
Sinha passed the order while hearing a petition filed by the Indian Young Lawyers Association challenging the bar on women's entry into the Sabarimala temple.
On November 18, a woman was arrested in front of the temple as she attempted to gatecrash into the hill shrine, where entry of women of certain age-group is barred.
Around two years back a major controversy erupted when a Kannada film actress claimed to have entered the sanctum sanctorum, violating the customary ban.
In the past several years, many women have been arrested at Pampa while trying to sneak into the temple.
Women who attain their puberty are barred from entering into the temple, which is opposed by many women groups.
New Delhi (ANI) The apex court yesterday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking the transfer of a case arising from the alleged killing of a professor by student activists out of Madhya Pradesh state.
However, a Supreme Court bench indicated that the case could be heard by a court in Nagpur in neighbouring Maharashtra state, while hearing a petition by Himanshu Sabharwal, whose father Professor H.S. Sabharwal died in the college campus in Ujjain during a student agitation led by ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's student wing.
The petitioner alleged that the BJP-led state administration was shielding the culprits. Himanshu is also seeking re-investigation of the case by the federal Central Bureau of Investigation as he is not satisfied with the state investigation.
Professor Sabharwal, the head of the political science department of Ujjain's Madhav College, died on August 26 last year from lung and rib injuries after allegedly being beaten up by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists. He was trying to convince students about the need for postponing union polls.
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