Kerala HC scraps petition seeking Muslim woman's entry to state mosques
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 12 (IBNS): The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by the Akhila Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, seeking directive that Muslim women be allowed to enter mosques in the state.
The said petition was filed by Swamy Dethathreya Sai Swaroop Nath, the Kerala state president of the group.
Rejecting the PIL, the division bench of Chief Justice Rishikesh Roy and A K J Nambiar said that the petitioner failed to prove that women are not allowed to enter mosques in Kerala.
Swaroop Nath had argued that while women were allowed entry inside Mecca, the treatment meted out to them in Indian mosques were different.
His petition read: "Thus, women of the Muslim community were being disgraced and discriminated against which was against Article 21 and 14 of the Constitution."
Not long ago, the Supreme Court abolished an age old tradition in the Lord Ayyapan Temple in Kerala's Sabarimala region, allowing woman of child bearing age to enter the main shrine.
Earlier, the temple authorities, stating that the Lord has manifested himself as celibate, barred the entry of woman between the ages of 10-50.
Upon hearing the decision, the Kerala government said they wouldn't meddle with it.
However, they are yet to react to the High Court's decision of scrapping Swaroop Nath's plea.
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