Sabarimala case: Secular court cannot determine if religious practice is superstition, says Centre

The Union government on Wednesday said that a secular court cannot determine whether a religious practice amounts to superstition, Bar and Bench reported.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Union government, made the contention before a nine-judge bench hearing a case involving constitutional questions related to the entry of women into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple and discrimination at other religious places.

In September 2018, a five-judge Constitution bench had, by a 4:1 majority, lifted a ban on women of menstruating age from entering the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala.