This is the Supreme Court of India's own 2018 judgment in Indian Young Lawyers Association v State of Kerala, which struck down the traditional exclusion of women of menstruating age from the Sabarimala temple of Ayyappan. As the court's own published opinion it is the authoritative primary source for the legal reasoning and holding, available through the Indian Kanoon database of court records. Its limit is that a judgment is not the end of a legal story by itself, review petitions against this decision were referred to a larger constitutional bench and the matter remains actively contested in Indian law and in practice at the temple, so a claim describing the exclusion as settled either way should be checked against the case's ongoing procedural status rather than this judgment alone.
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The Supreme Court of India's own published judgment, the court's own primary opinion, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record, available through the Indian Kanoon court-record database. NotesStruck down the exclusion of women of menstruating age from the Sabarimala temple of Ayyappan. Review petitions were referred to a larger bench and the matter remains contested.
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AuthorSupreme Court of India
PublisherSupreme Court of India
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://indiankanoon.org/doc/163639357/
Source Typelegal
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This source names Ayyappan directly: "age from the Sabarimala temple of Ayyappan."
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This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested, 5 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Sites, 9 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Deities, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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