The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the petition demanding permission for women to enter Sabarimala Temple. The PIL was filed by Indian Young Lawyers Association seeking to change to the decades old ban on menstruating women into the temple.
In January, the apex court had questioned the ban on women into the temple. The apex court had said that unless it's a constitutional right, entry of women cannot be prohibited from the Sabarimala temple.
Earlier, the Kerala government has done a U-turn and is now defending the ban. It also went on to withdraw the affidavit filed by the previous LDF government.
Sabarimala controversy
The temple has a tradition of only allowing girls before they attain puberty and women above the age of 50 who are menopausal. Women between the age of 10 and 50 are banned from entering because the temple believes women who menstruate are impure and must not be given access to the hilltop shrine.
The rule was introduced by the Travancore Devasom Board that maintains the temple.
In 2015, the head of the temple's board stated that women would be able to access the temple only after a body scanner is created to determine which women were pure enough to make the cut.
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