Speaking at an event organised by the Vishva Hindu Parishad legal cell in Prayagraj, the sitting Judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, said that a man having four wives is unacceptable. He pointed out that while women are revered as goddesses in Hindu scriptures like the Shastras and Vedas, members of a community still claim the …
Kolkata: The curious case of a lion named Akbar, a lioness called Sita, and petitioners upset at such nomenclature for reasons related to faith took an interesting turn on Thursday with Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta high court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench saying his conscience doesn’t support such naming even as the state government told him that zoo authorities were …
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday, directed for the reclassification of a plea moved by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad as a public interest litigation, and for it to be placed before the regular bench having determination over PILs.The Court also orally called on the State to consider renaming the lioness called 'Sita' who was a worshipped goddess among Hindus, to …
The Calcutta High Court on February 21 directed the West Bengal government to obtain details while hearing a plea by the Vishva Hindu Parishad against the naming of a lioness at Siliguri's Safari Park as 'Sita', reported LiveLaw. Earlier, Vishva Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council moved the court seeking an order to change the name of the lioness. The …
Kolkata: The Bengal unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad has moved the Calcutta high court over the naming of a lioness after the Hindu Goddess ‘Sita’ paired with a male lion named after the Mughal emperor ‘Akbar’. The five-year-old Asiatic lioness was brought to the Siliguri zoo from Tripura’s Sepahijala Zoological Park The wild cats were recently brought to the North …
