Ø “Women be permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Haji Ali
Dargah at par with men”, ruled the Bombay High Court on Friday in a landmark
verdict allowing the entry of women up to the mazar in the revered Sufi dargah
in south central Mumbai. However, the Division Bench of Justices V.M. Kanade
and Revati Mohite-Dere granted a six-week stay on the order on a request by the
Haji Ali Dargah Trust to enable it to go on appeal before the Supreme Court.
The court was hearing a public interest litigation petition filed by Dr.
Noorjehan Safia Niaz and Zakia Soman, co-founders of the Bharatiya Muslim
Mahila Andolan, in November 2014. Setting a precedent in allowing women to
enter religious places, the court said that the ban order by the Trust
contravened Article 14 (equality before law), 15 (prohibition of discrimination
on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth) and 25 (freedom of
conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion) of the
Constitution.
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