Speaking at an event, former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S Oka today expressed that India is in need of building a scientific temper to fight prevailing superstitions but anyone who proposes religious reforms gets targeted by religious groups.

"Though our Constitution has existed for 76 years now, our society has not generally supported great people who have consistently promoted the development of scientific temper and reforms. Unfortunately, in our society, anyone who proposes reforms in religious practices based on science or with help of science gets targeted by people belonging to religious groups. This applies squarely to all religions. In a country like India, we desperately need scientific temper as in our society, superstitions prevail. We don't understand the difference be

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