{"id":305490,"date":"2018-11-13T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305490"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:27:04","slug":"sabarimala-row-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-review-petitions-on-january-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sabarimala-row-supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-review-petitions-on-january-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabarimala row: Supreme Court agrees to hear review petitions on January 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303361 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-696x438.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala-667x420.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sabarimala.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear review petitions in an open court on its own verdict of allowing women of all age groups to enter Sabarimala Temple. The court will hear 49 petitions challenging the ruling on January 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the court has not ordered any stay on its earlier verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court in September had ruled that women\u00a0of all ages must be allowed in the hill shrine, ending centuries old ban that prevented women between age group of 10 to 50 years from entering the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over a dozen women tried to access the shrine but failed, even with heavy police escort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since the temple opened &#8211; the first time after the apex court\u2019s ruling \u2013 no women between 10 to 50 age group had made it to shrine because of the massive protests by those who opposed the judgment of Supreme Court and forcefully stopped women before the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On October 9, the top court had declined an urgent hearing on the review plea filed by an association which had contended that the five-judge Constitution bench&#8217;s verdict lifting the ban was &#8220;absolutely untenable and irrational&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear review petitions in an open court on its own verdict of allowing women of all age groups to enter Sabarimala Temple. The court will hear 49 petitions challenging the ruling on January 22. However, the court has not ordered any stay on its earlier verdict. The court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9666,3926,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305494,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305490\/revisions\/305494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}