Supreme Court issued a notice to the Central government and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board in a petition made by a Muslim couple asking for the entry of ladies inside the mosques, that the court is hearing the issue only because of the quote in Sabarimala judgment.
A Maharashtra couple filed a petition in the Supreme court seeking the women to offer prayers in the mosques.
The bench headed by SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer was not satisfied with the response was given by the petitioner’s counsel to a query on whether the individual can assert right against another individual. The court said that the Right to Equality under the Constitution can only be invoked against the state and not any individual who is inside a mosque and does not want the women to enter.
The bench said that the couple is invoking Article 14 of the Constitution that asks for the right to Equality from the state, whereas mosques are non-state actors.
The petition was filed by a Muslim couple in Maharashtra seeking the prohibition on the entry of women in the Mosques in India as illegal and unconstitutional. The Muslim couple, Yasmin Zuber Ahmad Peerzade, and Zuber Ahmad Nazir Ahmad Peerzade alleged that the prohibition violates the articles 14,15,21,25, and 29 of the constitution. The couple further stated that no such provision is laid down in the holy Quran that renders the entrance of women in the Mosques.
The Sabarimala Judgment made it clear that religion cannot be used as a tool behind which right to women should be denied and it is also against human dignity. Prohibition of women is due to non-religious reasons and this is a grim shadow of discrimination that has been going on constantly for years.
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