SC sets 10 days for hearing on Sabarimala

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Updated At : 12:40 PM Jan 29, 2020 IST

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New Delhi, January 28

The nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will complete the hearing on issues relating to gender discrimination in religious practices in 10 days.

“It cannot take more than 10 days. Even if someone wants more time, it cannot be given,” said a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. The Constitution Bench would take up purely legal questions, it added.

The CJI’s clarification came after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the court that senior lawyers could not finalise common legal questions to be considered by the nine-judge Bench. The court had on January 13 asked four senior advocates to meet on January 17 to finalise issues relating to gender discrimination in various religious practices to be taken up by it. — TNS

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