Religious Law

Supreme Court directs petitioners to approach respective High Courts regarding challenges to Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts (2025)

/ B.V. Nagarathna, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law with Article 14, Constitutional Law with Article 19(1)(g), Fundamental Rights, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Judges, Religious Law, Satish Chandra Sharma

Introduction Date of the Judgment: April 01, 2025 The Supreme Court of India addressed a batch of writ petitions challenging the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts enacted by the States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, as well as the Union Territory of Puducherry. The central […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Royal Family’s Shebaitship in Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Management: Marthanda Varma vs. State of Kerala (2020)

/ Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law with Article 290A, Constitutional Law with Article 363, Constitutional Law with Article 366(22), Indu Malhotra, Judges, Religious Endowments, Religious Law, Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1950, Uday Umesh Lalit

Supreme Court Upholds Royal Family’s Shebaitship in Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple Management LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the Royal Family of Travancore retains the right to manage the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple as Shebaits, despite the abolition of privy purses and princely privileges. CASE TYPE: Civil Law, Religious Endowments. Case Name: Sri Marthanda Varma (D) Thr. LRs. & Anr.

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Sabarimala Temple Entry: Supreme Court Upholds Women’s Rights in Review Petitions (2019)

/ A.M. Khanwilkar, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law with Article 14, Constitutional Law with Article 25, D.Y. Chandrachud, Essential Religious Practice, Fundamental Rights, Indu Malhotra, Judges, R.F. Nariman, Ranjan Gogoi, Religious Denomination, Religious Law

Sabarimala Temple Entry: Supreme Court Upholds Women’s Rights in Review Petitions (2019) LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the exclusion of women of menstruating age from the Sabarimala Temple is constitutional. CASE TYPE: Religious Rights/Constitutional Law Case Name: Kantaru Rajeevaru vs. Indian Young Lawyers Association [Judgment Date]: November 14, 2019 Introduction Date of the Judgment: November 14, 2019

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Sabarimala Temple Entry Ban on Women to be Examined by Larger Bench: Indian Young Lawyers Association vs. State of Kerala (2017)

/ Ashok Bhushan, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law with Article 14, Constitutional Law with Article 25, Dipak Misra, Fundamental Rights, Judges, R. Banumathi, Religious Denomination, Religious Law, Religious Practices

LEGAL ISSUE: Whether the prohibition on women of a specific age group from entering the Sabarimala Temple is discriminatory and violates fundamental rights. CASE TYPE: Public Interest Litigation, Constitutional Law, Religious Law Case Name: Indian Young Lawyers Association & Ors. vs. State of Kerala & Ors. Judgment Date: 13 October 2017 Introduction Date of the

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