India's top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating age

NEW DELHI - India's top court on Friday lifted a ban that prevented women and girls between the age of 10 and 50 from entering a prominent Hindu temple in the southern state of Kerala.

The authorities at the Sabarimala temple, which attracts tens of millions of pilgrims every year, have said the ban was rooted in a centuries-old tradition and is essential to the rites related to the temple's chief deity, Ayyappan.



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