{"id":25573,"date":"2020-01-07T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2020-01-07T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:14:04","slug":"cji-headed-9-judge-sc-bench-to-hear-issue-of-womens-entry-in-sabarimala-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=25573","title":{"rendered":"CJI headed 9-judge SC bench to hear issue of women&#8217;s entry in Sabarimala temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 12.0pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday formed a nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde to hear from January 13 the issue of allowing women and girls of all ages to enter Kerala&#8217;s Sabarimala temple, along with the other contentious issues of alleged discrimination against Muslim and Parsi women.<\/span>The other judges on the bench are Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan, L Nageswara Rao, M M Shantanagoudar, S A Nazeer, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kant.The nine-judge bench has been set up after a five-judge bench headed by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, by a 3:2 majority verdict, referred the matter to a seven-judge bench while examining the review petition filed against the historic September 28, 2018 judgement which had allowed women of all ages to enter Sabarimala temple.Besdies Justice Gogoi, Justices A M Khanwilkar and Indu Malhotra (the lone woman judge on the bench) were in majority while Justices R F Nariman and D Y Chandrachud had penned a minority verdict on November 14, 2019.<span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">On the nine-judge bench, which will hear the matter from January 13, there are no judges from the previous benches.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">The top court had on Monday issued a notice informing about listing of the petition filed by Indian Young Lawyers Association seeking review of the 2018 judgement.<\/span>However, the names of the judges were announced today.While referring the matter to a larger bench, the five-judge bench had however said that the debate about the constitutional validity of religious practices like bar on entry of women and girls into a place of worship was not limited to the Sabarimala case.The top court said such restrictions are there with regard to entry of Muslim women into mosques and &#8216;dargahs&#8217; and Parsi women, married to non-Parsi men, being barred from the holy fire place of an Agyari.It said it was time for the apex court to evolve a judicial policy to do &#8220;substantial and complete justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday formed a nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde to hear from January 13 the issue of allowing women and girls of all ages to enter Kerala&#8217;s Sabarimala temple, along with the other contentious issues of alleged discrimination against Muslim and Parsi women.The other judges on the bench are Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan, L Nageswara Rao, M M Shantanagoudar, S A Nazeer, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kant.The nine-judge bench has been set up after a five-judge bench&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25577,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions\/25577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}