The Supreme Court today refused to grant urgent hearing of a contempt petition filed pertaining to the entry of women into Sabarimala Temple..The petition, calling into question the ‘purification process’ conducted after women below the age of 50 entered the Sabarimala Temple yesterday, was mentioned before the Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul..After two women devotees entered the temple to offer prayers, a purification process was allegedly carried out by the Tantri of the Temple. Owing to this purification process, the Temple allegedly remained shut for a few hours..Advocate PV Dinesh, who mentioned the contempt petition today, claimed that the purification process itself goes against the judgment of the Constitution Bench that had allowed the entry of women of all ages inside the Temple..The Bench declined to give an urgent hearing to the case, with CJI Gogoi stating that the matter will be taken up on its scheduled date of January 22..In November last year, the Supreme Court listed the review petitions filed against the Supreme Court’s verdict for January 22. Over forty-nine petitions were filed seeking a review of the Court’s decision to allow women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala Temple..In September, a Constitution Bench of then Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Rohinton Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, and Indu Malhotra had, by a 4:1 majority, struck down Rule 3(b) of the Kerala Hindu Places of Public Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Rules, 1965 which was the basis for barring entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 years into the temple..The judgment had touched upon aspects of untouchability, while noting that the same stood abolished under Article 17 of the Constitution of India.
The Supreme Court today refused to grant urgent hearing of a contempt petition filed pertaining to the entry of women into Sabarimala Temple..The petition, calling into question the ‘purification process’ conducted after women below the age of 50 entered the Sabarimala Temple yesterday, was mentioned before the Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul..After two women devotees entered the temple to offer prayers, a purification process was allegedly carried out by the Tantri of the Temple. Owing to this purification process, the Temple allegedly remained shut for a few hours..Advocate PV Dinesh, who mentioned the contempt petition today, claimed that the purification process itself goes against the judgment of the Constitution Bench that had allowed the entry of women of all ages inside the Temple..The Bench declined to give an urgent hearing to the case, with CJI Gogoi stating that the matter will be taken up on its scheduled date of January 22..In November last year, the Supreme Court listed the review petitions filed against the Supreme Court’s verdict for January 22. Over forty-nine petitions were filed seeking a review of the Court’s decision to allow women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala Temple..In September, a Constitution Bench of then Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Rohinton Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, and Indu Malhotra had, by a 4:1 majority, struck down Rule 3(b) of the Kerala Hindu Places of Public Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Rules, 1965 which was the basis for barring entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 years into the temple..The judgment had touched upon aspects of untouchability, while noting that the same stood abolished under Article 17 of the Constitution of India.
