A five-member constitutional bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra and comprising Justices A. K. Sikri, A. M. Khanwilkar, Dr D. Y. Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan will hear sometime after Diwali the case pertaining to Goolrookh M. Gupta (pictured) versus Sam Chothia and other trustees of the Valsad Parsi Anjuman (VPA).
Khanwilkar, when a judge of the Bombay High Court had sanctioned the petition of the BPP favoring adult franchise. Chandrachud and Anoop Mohta had ruled in favor of the two priests banned by the BPP from performing religious ceremonies at Doongerwadi and two agiaries.
The special leave......