Exams have nothing to do with Hijab or SC on plea challenging Karnataka HC order
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said that exams have nothing to do with wearing of Hijab while hearing the mentioning of a plea seeking urgent hearing on a petition challenging the ban on sporting Hijab in educational institutes. Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat, appearing for the petitioner mentioned his plea seeking urgent hearing on petitions challenging Karnataka High Court's order that dismissed petitions against the ban on Hijab in educational institutions. Senior counsel Devadatt Kamat said that exams are starting on March 28 and students would lose a year as authorities are not allowing their entry in educational institutions with wearing of Hijab.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said, "Exams have nothing to do with the hijab issue." The Court also asked the counsel not to sensationalise the issue. Last week the Supreme Court had said that the appeal challenging the Karnataka High Court's order to uphold ban on wearing of Hijab in educational institutions would be listed for hearing after Holi break.The appeal said the High Court in its impugned order "had vehemently failed to apply its mind and was unable to understand the gravity of the situation as well as the core aspect of the essential religious practices enshrined under Arti
"Wearing of Hijab or headscarf is a practice that is essential to the practice of Islam," it added. A bench of Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit, and Justice JM Khazi on Tuesday held that the prescription of uniform is a reasonable restriction that students could not object to and dismissed various petitions challenging a ban on Hijab in education institutions, saying they are without merit. The wearing of Hijab row had erupted in January this year when the Government PU College in Udupi allegedly barred six girls wearing the Hijab from entering. Following this, the girls sat in protest outside college over being denied entry.
A seat of Karnataka High Court containing Boss Equity Ritu Raj Awasthi, Equity Krishna S Dixit, and Equity JM Khazi on Tuesday held that the remedy of uniform is a sensible limitation that understudies couldn't protest and excused different petitions testing a prohibition on Hijab in training organizations, saying they are without merit. The wearing of Hijab column had ejected in January this year when the Public authority PU School in Udupi purportedly banned six young ladies wearing the Hijab from entering. Following this, the young ladies sat in fight outside school over being denied passage.
After this, young men of a few schools in Udupi began going to classes wearing saffron scarves. This dissent spread to different pieces of the state too prompting fights and fomentations in a few spots in Karnataka. As an outcome, the Karnataka government said that all understudies should stick to the uniform and prohibited both Hijab and saffron scarves till a specialist council settled on the issue.
On February 5, the pre-College training board delivered a round expressing that the understudies could wear the uniform supported by the school organization and no other strict clothing would be permitted in colleges. The request expressed that in the event that a uniform isn't endorsed by the executives panels, then, at that point, understudies ought to wear dresses that work out positively for the possibility of fairness and solidarity, and don't upset the social request. A cluster of petitions was recorded contrary to the public authority's standard in the Karnataka High Court by a young ladies looking for consent to wearing of Hijab in instructive foundations.