A Study on Court Cases in India Related To Secularism

Abstract

This study focus on Supreme Court reaffirmed this ruling and held : the free exercise of religion by which is meant the performance of outward acts in pursuance of religious belief is… subject to state regulation and that religious practices or performance of acts in pursuance of religious belief are as much part of religion as faith or belief in particular. The court further held that under Article 25- a person has fundamental right to exhibit his beliefs in such overt acts as are enjoyed or sanctioned by his religions and that no outside authority has any right to say that these are not essential part of religion and it is not open to the secular authority to restrict or prohibit them in any manner they like.