The Court has impleaded PFI State General Secretary A Abdul Sathar as an additional respondent in the case and has directed the State government to file a report. The matter will be taken up next on September 29.
Justice PV Kunhikrishnan while hearing the case stated that the state of Kerala is known as 'God's own country' and that it is full of religious places. "We are exhausted with religious places and prayer halls and we are not in a position to allow any new religious places and prayer halls except in the rarest of rare cases", the judgement read.
The 13 RSS workers were convicted by the Thiruvananthapuram Additional District and Sessions Court, following which, they appealed in Kerala High Court in 2016.
The Kerala High Court said that there were several previous judgments delivered by the Supreme Court in which it had held that a Muslim woman cannot be a guardian of her minor children.