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Sr Adv Gopal Subramanium to continue his arguments.

Subramanium: Article 25, in my submission, is the expanse of religious freedom because this deals with many facets of religious freedom. What is the concept of freedom of religion?

the personal journey of an individual towards accepting a philosophy as religious philosophy. It has more components than what we see in a judgment. It has four aspects, all covered in freedom of religious in article 25-

1. Philosophical content of religion

2. practices associated in aid of that philosophy

3. right of worship

4. extent of belief

all these are protected under the word 'religion' under article 25. This is because you may not adopt the practices of that doctrine or you may not actually be involved in the external worship either. But this is individual freedom under article 25.