An analysis on the how the laws in India had taken a toll over religious customs in India. It also focuses on the Chooral Mooriyal festival in Kerala in which kids aged 8-12 is being pierced with golden threads in the midribs as a part of the “Kuthiyottam” festival held in Chettikulangara as well as Attukal temple as a devotion to Lord Bhadra kali. This paper also focuses on “Essential Practice test” which determines whether a customary practice is necessary and obligatory practice in a religion. Despite the fact that a religious area might be recognized from a mainstream one and shielded from State intervention, there are prosecutions which are concerned with social liberties that includes religious issues on which common courts may come along the lines have an express obligation to run the show. This paper comments on several milestone judgments in the sphere of religious customs which shows how the relationship between law and religion has evolved in India since 19th century.