A petition filed by Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha for Muslim women to enter mosques and to ban the purdah has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Live Law quoted Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s remarked, “Let a Muslim woman challenge it.” while dismissing the order.
According to the Wire, The special leave petition was filed by the president of the Kerala unit of the Hindu Mahasabha, whose petition was previously dismissed by the Kerala high court in October 2018. The Supreme Court referred to the high court’s judgment while dismissing the plea.
The original petition was filed before the Kerala HC soon after the Supreme Court’s historic judgment allowing women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple.
Dismissing the Mahasabha’s plea, the Kerala high court dubbed it as a “publicity exercise”. It also noted that there was a lack of “substantial evidence of the claim that women were being denied entry into mosques”. Observing that the apex court’s Sabarimala ruling would not be applicable in this case, the high court said if Muslim women felt discriminated against, they were “free to move the court”, reported the Wire.
