The Supreme Court said that if people start challenging every religious practice in the Constitutional Court, then hundreds of petitions will be filed against different rituals. The Court warned that this could disturb religion and social order.
A nine-judge Constitution bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant is hearing cases related to discrimination against women at religious places, including the Sabarimala Temple.
The Court is also hearing cases about the limits and scope of religious freedom in different religions, including the case of the Dawoodi Bohra community.
In 1986, the Central Board of the Dawoodi Bohra community filed a petition asking the Court to cancel a 1962 judgment that had struck down the Bombay Prevention of Excommunication Act, 1949. This law had made it illegal to expel or boycott any member from the community.
