SC smashes gender barrier, opens Sabarimala for all women

A five-judge Constitution bench by a 4:1 majority held that devotees of Lord Ayyappa were “exclusively Hindus” and did not constitute a separate religious denomination and that the practice of exclusion of some women could not be regarded as an essential part of religion.

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