Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 154 · Decided 4 February 2022
The Surat Parsi Panchayat Board and Another v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 154 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 631
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1067/2022
- Decided
- 4 February 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 25, 226
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art.25 - Freedom of religion - Appellant-Surat Parsi Panchayat Board filed petition before the High Court seeking, among other things, directions to allow the performance of Dokhmenashini or funeral rights in the Dokhmas belonging community - The basis of the grievance was that the protocols which were notified on 15 March 2020 by the Union Government during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic setting out modalities for the disposal of dead bodies did not comport with the tenets of the Zoroastrian faith
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