{"id":206,"date":"2026-04-08T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/justice-b-v-nagarathna-women-cannot-be-untouchables-for-3-days-every-month\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:03:50","slug":"justice-b-v-nagarathna-women-cannot-be-untouchables-for-3-days-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/justice-b-v-nagarathna-women-cannot-be-untouchables-for-3-days-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice B V Nagarathna: Women cannot be &#8216;untouchables&#8217; for 3 days every month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/justice-b-v-nagarathna-women-cannot-be-untouchables-for-3-days-every-month\/articleshow\/130099378.cms\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/photo\/130099378.cms\"\/><\/a>Justice B.V. Nagarathna strongly criticized the historical practice of isolating menstruating women, deeming it a form of &#8220;untouchability.&#8221; While hearing arguments on the Sabarimala temple entry ban, she questioned the validity of such social customs. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta countered, arguing the deity&#8217;s unique attributes and devotees&#8217; faith should not be tested by gender equality standards.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice B.V. Nagarathna strongly criticized the historical practice of isolating menstruating women, deeming it a form of &#8220;untouchability.&#8221; While hearing arguments on the Sabarimala temple entry ban, she questioned the validity of such social customs. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta countered, arguing the deity&#8217;s unique attributes and devotees&#8217; faith should not be tested by gender equality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.info.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}