Sabarimala Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 9]

Sharma: equality amongst religion can only be claimed when there is some in your religion.

Sharma: question before bommai was not essential practice but it created an interface. bommai said that articles 25, 26, 27, 28 constitutes one scheme and words in article 27 and 28 helps in interpreting it.

Advocate Aniruddh Sharma: 9 judges in bommai [reads it].

Advocate 2: shirur mutt, the denomination is taken from oxford dictionary. temples are conscerated. worship over there is very specific- Jula Devi Temple. the denomination should not be concentrated on a follower but on the place.

Advocate: in the premises of sabarimala, there is a small mosque. [vaverkundi]. whoever coming, they are donating to

Advocate 2[for review petitioner]: articles 25 and 26 are pitied against other FRs, who approach is to be taken?

articles 25 and 26 are not lower in hierarchy.

Advocate: establish and maintain must be read conjuctively.

Advocates: article 26- two parts-establish and maintain-AMU judgment-maintain means continue, dictationary meaning also continue. in accordance with article 25, I can continue unless religious cruelty.

Advocate: two judges decided on the basis of menstruation, lots of devotees are pained.

Advocate: article 25(2)(b)-whether any cruetly involved in sabarimala? a section of people said that menstruating women can't enter-it is an interpretation given by some activist, it is wrong.

Advocate: if this rituals and customs has nothing to do with religious cruelty, as J Malhotra said, then the scope of judicial review is very less. this is a dissenting judgment.

what is religious cruelty? [reads his written submissions]