Karnataka hijab issues : Supreme Court judges Justice Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia give split verdict

0
146

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today pronounced its verdict on various petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court order upholding the ban on hijab in educational institutions.

A bench of justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia pronounced its judgement.

Earlier, the apex court had reserved its order on various petitions challenging Karnataka High Court upholding the ban on hijab in educational institutes.

The arguments in the matter went on for 10 days in which 21 lawyers from the petitioners’ side and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, Karnataka Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi argued for the respondents.

This year in January, the hijab row had erupted when the Government PU College in Udupi allegedly barred six girls wearing the hijab from entering.

Following which, the girls sat in protest outside the college over being denied entry.

After this, boys of several colleges in Udupi started attending classes wearing saffron scarves. This protest spread to other parts of the state as well leading to protests and agitations in several places in Karnataka.

As a result, the Karnataka government said that all students must adhere to the uniform and banned both hijab and saffron scarves till an expert committee decided on the issue.

On February 5, the pre-University education board released a circular stating that the students could only wear the uniform approved by the school administration and no other religious attire would be allowed in colleges.

LEAVE A REPLY