The Supreme Court sat on the Sabarimala review petitions for nine months only to refer them to a larger bench on the penultimate working day of CJI Gogoi. It’s a waste of precious time. CJIs should end this self-indulgence of giving big judgments in the last days of their tenure.
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It is possible to discern shades of Ayodhya in this judgment. Both privilege matters of faith in issues that should be seen in temporal terms. In a country where religion plays an outsized role in national – now also in public – life, the Sabarimala verdict, as also Triple Talaaq, were bold, reformist moves. 2. For me, it will be a sad day if a majority of judges on a seven member a Bench rule against the admission of women to the shrine, ruling in favour of long established religion.
… long established religious dogma and practice.
Most of religion is just that ‘religious dogma ” , religion is not sceince , why would women want rational thought to prevail when they are climbing a hilltop to a have darshan of ‘god’ , its most ironical.