Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 127 · Decided 23 September 1983
Gulam Abbas and Others v. State of U.P. and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 127 · [1984] 1 S.C.R. 64
- Case number
- MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION No. 4939/1983
- Decided
- 23 September 1983
- Bench
- V.D. TULZAPURKAR, D.A. DESAI, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 176(3); Constitution Article 32
Headnote
ConstitUtlon of India-Arts. 25 an'd 26-Scope of-Exercise of reliziou1 rights is subject to maintenance of public order..:....Shifting of graves for the purpose ,of m,aintaining public order is hot irreligious or destructive of llf..ndamental rights. While deciding a writ petition relating to the rights, practices· and observances by members of Shia sect on a plot of land in a mohalta, the Court permanently restrained the Sunni commtinity of that rriohalla by an injunction from interfering with lhe exercise of such rights of Shia community. However, the Court found that in an
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