Summary:
Goolrookh Gupta, the Parsi woman who petitioned the Supreme Court seeking freedom to enter Parsi religious places, said on Saturday that she was glad the court decided to examine the matter. The SC on Thursday agreed to examine an appeal of whether a Parsi woman could retain her religious rights after marring a non-Parsi man. In March 2012, the Gujarat High Court held that a Parsi woman, by entering into a civil union with a non-Parsi under the Special Marriage Act, would cease to be a Parsi. "I was never disallowed inside temples, but most women are. Though Gupta was herself never disallowed, she took up the fight when one of her friends was not allowed..