Justice Gupta : You like us to interpret these verses as Mr.Mucchala said Court should not.
Khurshid : Your lordships have developed certain judicial techniques, Mucchala is on a slightly different view.
Khurshid hands over copies of Quran to the judges.
Khurshid : What the Prophet did is just as binding as the word of Quran. So the binary of obligatory and non-obligatory is not there in Islam.
Khurshid : Unlike other religions, Islam has no binary of obligatory and non-obligatory. The word of God is obligatory.
Khurshid : Revelations in Quran are not man-made, they are the word of God, which came through the Prophet. It is the word of God and it is mandatory.
Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid starts arguments.
Mucchala : Last point on reasonable accommodation.
J Gupta : Mr Kamat has argued for one and a half day.
Mucchala : Very well.
Mucchala concludes.
Mucchala : Some of the petitioners put the question before the Court. At that very moment, the Court should have said hands off, that we cannot decide whether it was essential religious practice or not.
Muchhala : It is whether essential of religion or essential to religion, subsequently it became essential to religion and went up to Sabarimala case.
Mucchala : The issue which is to be seen is whether it is essentially religious or essential to religion.