Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 174 · Decided 27 February 2023
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 174 · [2023] 3 S.C.R. 184
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 190/2023
- Decided
- 27 February 2023
- Bench
- K.M. JOSEPH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 14, 21, 25, 29, 19
Headnote
Constitution of India - Article 32, 14 - Petition filed seeking directions - to the Home Ministry to constitute a Renaming Commission to find out original names of ancient historical cultural religious places, named after barbaric ASI to research and publish their initial names; to the Centre and State Governments to update their websites and records - Held: Secularism has been accepted as a facet of the basic structure of the Constitution - Bharat is a secular nation committed to securing fundamental rights to
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