{"id":102542,"date":"2026-04-09T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/appointment-of-priests-by-govt-boards-cant-be-a-secular-act-centre\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:36:31","slug":"appointment-of-priests-by-govt-boards-cant-be-a-secular-act-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/appointment-of-priests-by-govt-boards-cant-be-a-secular-act-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of priests by govt boards can&#8217;t be a secular act: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta criticized the Supreme Court&#8217;s past rulings on temple priest appointments, arguing they wrongly classified a religious decision as secular. He urged a review of jurisprudence, emphasizing state non-interference in religious matters and advocating for legislative control over social and religious reforms.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta criticized the Supreme Court&#8217;s past rulings on temple priest appointments, arguing they wrongly classified a religious decision as secular. He urged a review of jurisprudence, emphasizing state non-interference in religious matters and advocating for legislative control over social and religious reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":102543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}