1Associate Professor, Department of Law, Bareilly College, Bareilly, India Email id: dksinghbcb@gmail.com
2Research Scholar, Department of Law, Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow, India, Email id: anujsinghj13@gmail.com
Online published on 4 March, 2019.
Secularism cannot only be practiced by adopting a completely neutral approach towards religion but also by a positive one by making one section of religious people to understand and respect religion and faith of another section of people. The research paper discusses the Constitutional spirit of Article 27 through the Constituent Assembly debate and the various judgment of the Supreme Court of India. This paper also evaluates the role of State in promoting the pilgrimage of different religion and especially hajj subsidy sustained by State on air travel of pilgrims. This research paper also suggests that those religious charitable trust that are recipient of huge donation and proceeds of which are being used in promotion of any particular religion must come in the purview of tax laws in India.
Secularism, Pilgrimage, Article 27, Hajj Subsidy
