NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket agreed to think about listening to a plea elevating a difficulty whether or not suspension of a Muslim particular person from a police power for retaining a beard violates the basic proper to observe faith beneath the Structure. Article 25 of the Structure pertains to freedom of conscience and the precise freely to profess, practise and propagate faith.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra agreed to look at the difficulty. The plea was of a Muslim constable of Maharashtra State Reserve Police Power (SRPF). He was suspended for retaining a beard, violating the Bombay Police Handbook of 1951.
“This is a crucial concern of the Structure… We’ll record the matter for listening to on a non-miscellaneous day,” the CJI stated, after being instructed that the case was earlier than the Lok Adalat and remained unresolved.
Zahiroddin S Bedade had approached the highest court docket in 2015. Earlier, the bench had supplied to revoke his suspension if he agreed to shave his beard. The petitioner, nonetheless, had then refused to just accept the situation.
