SC lifts Allahabad HC stay on 100-year-old Ramlila festivities at UP school playground, but asks State to find another spot in future

On Thursday, September 25, 2025, the Ramlila celebrations in a school playground in Uttar Pradesh walked on the middle way for a while, but at the same time the state directed the state to find an alternative point to keep the religious event, so that the children did not lose their playgrounds.

A bench under the chairmanship of Justice Kant, Ramlila organizers, decided to list the trial case urgently after running to the upper court against the stay of an old part of the ongoing celebrations in Jilla Parishhad Vidhyalaya in Firozabad region. Organizers argued that Ramlila was played in school areas for at least 100 years. The school does not object to the festivals and children also participate.

The petition owner, who had stayed at the celebrations of the public interest (PIL) in the Supreme Court, claimed that “secular” school playgrounds should not be allowed to host religious celebrations. School areas are special areas for children who should not be deprived of the ground for recreation. Authorized, in the school field, a large scene with large parts of tiles carrying each other, he added that a large scene was built.

“However, the organizers say that the event has been organized in the same area for 100 years. Why didn’t you come before? Why didn’t you complain to the regional officials? Why did you approach the court when the celebrations started on September 14?” Justice Kant asked the petition’s lawyer.

The Supreme Court, which freezes the Supreme Court’s order of stay, allowed the Ramlila celebration in the playground to “impress iyle in order to determine an alternative place to keep these incidents in the future.

“This can only be used by school students, Adalet said Adalet Kant.

In 2018, seven years ago, the Supreme Court asked a Constitutional Counter to decide whether religious and ceremonial activities would be allowed in state -owned buildings because our constitution is secular in nature ”.

In the Maidan incident, the Supreme Court reminded the state authorities that the right to education was also part of the directive principles of the state policy and accepted that “compulsory and primary education was considered as part of Article 21 [right to life] As a result, the Free and Compulsory Education Law of children, the Constitution, which led to the entry into force of 2010 right ”.

A 2023 decision of the Calcutta Supreme Court concluded that even a state institution could be used “no imagination” to make festivals of a school playground.

In Sudarsan Mandal, the Supreme Court against the Western Bengal province decided that a school building could not be determined as a “public sphere için to organize festivals.

“Even if a school playground belongs to a state -backed school, the Supreme Court of Calcutta said the same iPSO Facto, the school, which is an educational institution, does not turn the school’s playground into an open area where everyone can try to organize any festival,” he said.