Several colleges in Karnataka were in chaos on Wednesday after resuming after being closed for a week due to the Hijab issue, as Burqa-clad Muslim pupils were not let in
The hijab issue would never have emerged in a totally secular country. A simple diktat suggesting Muslim girls can wear hijabs in private places but not in colleges and universities because they are public spaces would have fixed the problem.
In India, meanwhile, it is not so straightforward.
According to the lawyer representing the girl students requesting permission to wear the hijab before the Karnataka High Court on Monday, the government cannot restrict essential rights in the name of keeping public order.
Senior attorney Devdatt Kamat Advocate also told the bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S. Dixit, and Judge Khaji Jaibunnesa Mohiyuddin that the College Development Committee (CDC) lacks the authority to impose consistent norms.
“The decision by the bench on the controversy advised, and the members who chair the committee decide the fundamental right.It isn’t criminal to bann the carrying of scarves,” he argued.
Kamat explained that all central government-run central schools allow hijab to be worn, and petitioners have long worn hijab in the same color as their uniforms.
The bench eventually adjourned the problem till Tuesday. The bench had final week given an meantime order that no non secular symbols are allowed for the scholars in faculties and schools till the very last order of the court, as a consequence barring use of each hijab and saffron shawls in the college and university premises.
However, petitioners moved the Supreme Court difficult the meantime order however it had rejected the call for of urgent listening to through petitioners and stated that it will most effective intervene at the suitable time.
Published By – Pawan Rajput
Edited By – Mahi Gupta
