{"id":58800,"date":"2020-02-11T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=58800"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:49:55","slug":"sabarimala-case-sc-holds-it-c-an-refer-questions-of-law-to-larger-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sabarimala-case-sc-holds-it-c-an-refer-questions-of-law-to-larger-bench","title":{"rendered":"Sabarimala case: SC holds it c.an refer questions of law to larger bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"54751\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sabarimala-case-sc-agrees-to-hear-review-petitions-on-jan-22\/sabarimala-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?fit=700%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sabarimala-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?fit=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?fit=640%2C379&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54751\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?resize=640%2C379&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/Sabarimala-2.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Monday held that its five-judge bench can refer questions of law to a larger bench while exercising its limited power under review jurisdiction in the Sabarimala case.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde framed seven questions to be heard by a nine-judge Constitutional bench on issues relating to freedom of religion under the Constitution and faith.<\/p>\n<p>The court proposes to hear on a day-to-day basis from February 17 questions framed on scope of religious freedom in various religions.<\/p>\n<p>The seven questions framed by the bench include those on scope and ambit of religious freedom, and interplay between religious freedom and freedom of beliefs of religious denominations.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said its nine-judge bench will deal with the right to freedom of religion under Article 25 of the Constitution and its interplay with the right of various religious denominations.<\/p>\n<p>It will also deal with the extent of judicial review with regard to religious practices and the meaning of &#8220;sections of Hindus&#8221; occurring in article 25 (2)(b) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court will also deal with the power of a person, who does not belong to a particular religion or sect of a religion, to question the religious beliefs of that religion by filling a PIL.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court asked the lawyers representing various parties to give information as to who they are representing and the bench then would allot time to them for advancing arguments.<\/p>\n<p>It said that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, would open the arguments followed by senior advocate K Parasaran on February 17.<\/p>\n<p>The bench also comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan, L Nageswara Rao, M M Shantanagoudar, S A Nazeer, R Subhash Reddy, B R Gavai and Surya Kant would hear the issues which were referred by a five-judge Constitution bench headed by then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi (since retired) on November 14, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the Sabarimala case, the verdict had also referred issues of entry of Muslim women into mosques and dargahs and of Parsi women, married to non-Parsi men, being barred from the holy fire place of an Agiary, to the larger bench.<\/p>\n<p>A five-judge bench, by a majority of 3:2 on November 14 last year, had referred to a larger bench the issue of discrimination against women at various religions&#8217; 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