Author: ArushiSrivastava

Introduction The judgment pronounced by the apex court one year ago in Indian Young Lawyers Association & Ors v. State of Kerala & Ors., popularly known as the Sabarimala case, is incontestably a groundbreaking work of the higher judiciary. The ruling lifted the age-old ban on entry of women belonging to the menstruating age group (i.e., 10–50 years) in the famous Sabarimala temple of Lord Ayyappa in Kerala, opining that such prohibition does not only violate the fundamental right to religion and right to equality, as guaranteed by the Constitution, but is also highly regressive and derogatory in substance. The…