The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking to open all religious places of worship across country which are closed thanks to COVID-19 pandemic.
A bench headed by judge S A Bobde issued the notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs on the plea of Ahmedabad-based “Gitarth Ganga Trust’ seeking opening of the places of worship within the country.
“We are issuing notice just to explore possibility,” said the bench, which also comprised Jusrices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, within the proceedings held through video conferencing.
The trust, a spiritual Research Institute, filed the plea through lawyer Surjendu Sankar Das.
The plea said it’s been filed with the “solemn and pious objective to guard the elemental rights enshrined and guaranteed under the Articles 14, 19(1)(a) and (b), 25, 26 and 21, especially , of the residents of India concerning opening of the places of worship/religious places throughout India which are prohibited/restricted at the present by many of the states”.