Everybody has proper to their faith: Supreme Court
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NEW DELHI: India is a secular nation and all people has a proper to their faith, the Supreme Court stated on Monday whereas dismissing a PIL looking for to declare late non secular determine Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra as ‘Paramatma’.
A bench of Justices M R Shah and C T Ravikumar imposed a price of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner for submitting a “publicity interest litigation”.
As the petitioner Upendra Nath Dalai began to learn from his petition, the bench stated, “Suno hum ye lecture sunne ke liye nahi aaye hain (Listen, we are not here to listen to your lecture). Is this a public interest litigation? Aisa kaise ho sakta hai? Jisko jo manna hai wo mane. Apni country me sabko religious adhikar hai. Hum kaise keh sakte hain ki particular sect ko him maane. (How can this be possible? Everybody is free to follow his or her religion. How can we ask people to follow a particular religion) “If you need you may think about him as ‘Paramatma’ (supreme being). Why implement it on others?” the bench noticed.
The prime courtroom was listening to a plea filed by Dalai looking for to declare Chandra as ‘Paramatma’.
While dismissing the plea, the apex courtroom stated in its order, “India is a secular country and the petitioner cannot be permitted to pray that the citizens of India may accept Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra as ‘Paramatma’. This seems to be a publicity interest litigation which deserves to be dismissed with costs.”
Chandra was born on September 14, 1888 in Pabna in Bangladesh.
NEW DELHI: India is a secular nation and all people has a proper to their faith, the Supreme Court stated on Monday whereas dismissing a PIL looking for to declare late non secular determine Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra as ‘Paramatma’.
A bench of Justices M R Shah and C T Ravikumar imposed a price of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner for submitting a “publicity interest litigation”.
As the petitioner Upendra Nath Dalai began to learn from his petition, the bench stated, “Suno hum ye lecture sunne ke liye nahi aaye hain (Listen, we are not here to listen to your lecture). Is this a public interest litigation? Aisa kaise ho sakta hai? Jisko jo manna hai wo mane. Apni country me sabko religious adhikar hai. Hum kaise keh sakte hain ki particular sect ko him maane. (How can this be possible? Everybody is free to follow his or her religion. How can we ask people to follow a particular religion) “If you need you may think about him as ‘Paramatma’ (supreme being). Why implement it on others?” the bench noticed.
The prime courtroom was listening to a plea filed by Dalai looking for to declare Chandra as ‘Paramatma’.
While dismissing the plea, the apex courtroom stated in its order, “India is a secular country and the petitioner cannot be permitted to pray that the citizens of India may accept Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra as ‘Paramatma’. This seems to be a publicity interest litigation which deserves to be dismissed with costs.”
Chandra was born on September 14, 1888 in Pabna in Bangladesh.
