Tezzbuzz Desk – Hearing is going on in the Supreme Court of India on the cases of discrimination and entry of women in various religious places including Sabarimala Temple. During this, the court severely reprimanded a lawyer for deviating from the main issue of the hearing. The case is related to the entry of women into religious places and the balance between religious traditions, which is being heard by a nine-judge Constitution bench.
Hearing continues on Sabarimala case
The hearing of the case related to Sabarimala temple in the Supreme Court started from April 7. During this time, the central government had argued for respect for religious traditions on the entry of women. The government had said that entry of men is also restricted in many goddess temples in the country, hence the issue of entry of women only should not be looked at differently.
During the hearing of the case, there is also a debate on how to strike a balance between religious freedom and the right to equality.
The lawyer was stopped several times by the court
During the hearing on Tuesday, Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay raised many issues in her arguments which were not directly related to the Sabarimala case. They started long debates on topics like religion, constitution, Sanskrit language and partition of India.
He said that religion is superior to sect and in the last 2000 years, India got divided into many parts due to communal conflicts. He also raised the question whether in the next 25 years India will become a scientifically integrated country like China, Japan and Singapore or will go to the situation like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The court several times told him to confine himself only to the issues under consideration.
Dr. Ambedkar and Sanskrit were also mentioned
During the debate, Ashwini Upadhyay also claimed that Sanskrit has more letters than English and BR Ambedkar had introduced the bill to make Sanskrit the official language. He said that there are no exact words for words like “Constitution” and “Religion” in English because the English language is limited.
He also said that religion should be included in primary education and has also filed a PIL on this subject.
Justice Mahadevan expressed his displeasure
When the debate continued to deviate from the core issue, Justice Mahadevan expressed visible displeasure. He said,
“You are deviating from the topic we all are discussing. You said Sanskrit has 52 letters; similarly Tamil has 247 letters. Don’t go into all these topics. Focus on the issue itself.”
This comment of the court is being seen as a rebuke to the lawyer. The bench clearly indicated that debate in sensitive constitutional matters should be limited to facts and legal issues.
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