<span style="color: #222222;">Supreme Court today said that its nine-judge Constitution bench would wrap up proceedings within 10 days in the matter relating to discrimination against women in various religions and at religious places including Kerala's Sabarimala Temple. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that questions to be dealt with would be purely legal in nature.<br />''<br />''The observations came when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned the case before the bench. He said that in pursuance of the court's earlier direction a meeting of lawyers took place, but it could not finalize the common legal questions for consideration of the nine-judge bench.<br />''<br />''The court will consider issues related to entry of Muslim women into mosques, female genital mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and barring of Parsi women married to non-Parsi men from the holy fire place at Agiary.</span><br />
News On AIR | January 28, 2020 1:26 PM
SC fixes 10-day period for hearing issues of discrimination against women at religious places