Kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- The Supreme Court has refused to bar Naga Sadhus (naked ascetic monks) from entering the Pashupatinath and other Shiva temples, ruling that nudity in the name of religion cannot be regarded as obscene.
Scrapping the writ petition by advocate Yagya Mani Neupane, a division bench of justices Kumar Chudal and Nahakul Subedi clarified that nudity and obscenity are not synonymous.
Petitioner Neupane had sought court intervention to prevent such sadhus from entering the shrines, arguing that acts like roaming naked, smearing ash from the linga (penis) onto people, and performing stunts like lifting stones using the linga spread obscenity and harassed devotees.
"Inviting sadhus from across the border [India] solely to di...
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