The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that practicing religion is not dependent on any particular place while dismissing a plea to reconstruct the 200-year-old Takiya Masjid in Ujjain, demolished for Mahakal Lok expansion. The court held that land acquisition does not infringe Articles 25 and 26 rights.
The Gauhati High Court has instructed the Assam government to respond within four weeks to a petition challenging the constitutionality of the Assam Compulsory Registration of Muslim Marriages and Divorces Act, 2024. The petitioner seeks the restoration of the repealed 1935 Act, claiming the new law violates constitutional rights and negatively impacts the Muslim community’s marriage practices.
The Supreme Court has declined the Tamil Nadu government’s plea to permit the appointment of archakas (priests) to Agamic temples, maintaining the status quo as previously ordered. This decision comes in the wake of a Madras High Court judgment from August 2022, which exempted Agamic temples from the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious Institutions Employees (Conditions […]
