India, April 7 -- The Centre on Monday urged the Supreme Court to uphold the restriction on entry of women of menstruating age into Kerala's Sabarimala temple, arguing that the issue falls squarely within the domain of religious faith and denominational autonomy and lies beyond the scope of judicial review.

Notably, the government also urged the nine-judge bench to declare that the law and reasoning in the 2018 Joseph Shine judgment, which struck down the offence of adultery, are not good law, contending that the ruling rests on an overbroad and subjective application of "constitutional morality" - that the Centre termed "a judicially evolved, vague and indeterminate concept."

In detailed written submissions filed ahead of the hearing o...