New Delhi, April 7 -- The Supreme Court has started hearing final arguments on petitions seeking review of its 2018 judgment lifting age restrictions on women's entry into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala.

Arguing for the Centre on Tuesday, SG Tushar Mehta said that not all constitutional questions should be viewed through a gender lens, while defending the ban on the entry of women between the age of 10 and 50 to the Sabarimala temple.

A nine-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justices B V Nagarathna, M M Sundresh, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Aravind Kumar, Augustine George Masih, Prasanna B Varale, R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi, is taking up pleas seeking review of its 2018 verdict in the Sabarimala case related to the...