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.
Children should be safeguarded from overt situations that might negatively affect their susceptible brains, Justice Gopinath noted, adding that children should not be allowed to participate in demonstrations or sloganeering.
Division Bench says there is a ‘constitutional obligation to preserve religious practices of all religions’ and a ‘corresponding duty to act in that direction’.