totally unconnected with the Temple and its affairs and may be purely secular in nature.
21. Section 25 lays down that the Government may call ... absolute control over the Devaswom and its religious as well as secular affairs with no right whatever to the denomination to call in question
dissolution of a secular marriage by mutual consent. Long later,
in 1976 the concept of divorce by mutual consent was accepted
and recognised under ... separate residence of one
year is sufficient for those to whom the secular law of divorce by
mutual consent under Sec.28 of the Special
maintenance for one's wife and children was
incorporated in the secular Code to be applicable equally to all
Indians irrespective of their religious ... stipulation regarding
maintenance to the claimants (wife and child under the secular
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1898 Code) was perhaps
make law for regulating or restricting any economic, financial, political or other secular activity which may be associated with religious practice. Existing law as well ... altogether from the religious denomination and vests it in any other or secular authority, would amount to violation of the right which is guaranteed
made to regulate or restrict any economic, financial, political or secular, activity which may be associated with religious practice or to provide for social welfare
must be so construed as to make it onstitutional, in which case secular gifts like Ext. B1 cannot claim the benefit of exemption. After some ... opinion, be classified for purposes of documentation, attestation and registration of purely secular gifts, with constitutional justification, on grounds of religion in the extreme acceptation
inconsistent with the
constitutional obligation of these two bodies to function on secular
principles. Though it is not clearly pleaded it was specifically argued ... State of Kerala and the
K.S.I.D.C. is purely secular, i.e. to derive a commercial benefit from
the business
regulating or restricting any economic,
financial, political or other secular activity which may
be associated with religious practice;
(b) providing for social welfare and reform ... making any law regulating or
restricting any economic, financial, political or other
secular activity which may be associated with religious
practice. Extent and content
pointed out that the Act envisages the management of only the secular activities and there is no impediment in the sanyasins in performing their spiritual ... thought, expression, belief, faith and worship. Constitution of India stands for a secular State. State has no official religion. Secularism by various provisions states that
attached to it."
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10. Secularism under Constitution and Press
10.1. The Preamble of the Constitution was amended ... 42nd
Amendment 1976 to include secularism.
10.2. The secularism is not a mere ideal in the legal order enshrined
under the Constitution but the very
