CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF RESTRICTIONS ON RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

Abstract

Maintenance of public order is always considered to be the primary duty of the state. Right to religious practice is a very sensitive issue. Likelihood of clash between believers of one religion and another while exercising their religious practice which may lead to violation of public order of the state is very high. In order to maintain public order among the people of the society while they exercise religious freedom, lawmakers of our country have taken keen steps. Various legal provisions for the management of public order and tranquillity have been comprehensively formulated. The judiciary has asserted that the state authorities have been given police powers to solve like nature of issue which runs parallel to the guarantee given by the Constitution to an individual.