India's Supreme Court considers call to open mosques to women

NEW DELHI: India's Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider a petition from a Muslim couple to allow women into mosques, seeking to overturn a centuries-old practice that largely bars women from the places of worship.

"Like men, women also have the constitutional rights to offer worship according to their belief," they said in their petition. The court last year lifted a ban on the entry of women of menstrual age at a Hindu temple in southern India saying it was a violation of their right to worship.The Muslim couple referred to the temple ruling, which angered conservative Hindus, as a precedent to support their call for women to be allowed to pray at mosques.

The petition comes at a sensitive time for relations been minority Muslims and the majority Hindu community.

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