The Karnataka government on Tuesday ordered all educational institutes to wear uniforms and not wear any Hijabs or Saffron Shawls.
On Tuesday the Karnataka government enforced all the educational institutes to wear uniforms instead of Hijab and Saffron Shawls to avoid any kind of religious affiliation.
Tushar Mehta a Solicitor General from BJP appeared in front of the bench of justice Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia and mentioned that the state is not asking whether Hijab is an essential practice of Islam or not.
Tushar Mehta said that the state government has the authority to ask all the educational institutes to have or enforce a uniform dress code so that they can show or have unity and equality.
He also mentioned that educational institutes are not any kind of Vedshalas or Madrasa where the students are required to wear any kind of religious identity.
The state at first avoided all kinds of statements from the Muslim’s side about them claiming that the hijab is part of their religious beliefs, Justice Dhulia in the protection of the constitution stated that the Karnataka High Court could have avoided the importance of the hijab because of the inappropriate comments thrown by the scholars who never seemed to go through the real or actual verses of Quran the holy book.
Justice Dhulia and Tushar Mehta agreed with the decision of the High Court to adjust the controversy about the religious matter but some portioners claimed that Hijab is their important religious practice even on relying on Quran.
The SG stated that the schools implementing rules to the students to wear uniforms does not hurt anybody’s sensibility or religious beliefs and if the students put their religious beliefs and practice above education then there will be no discipline which will generally lead to nothing but violence in the name of equality and unity.
Justice Hemant Gupta even had a query asking whether the Quran mandates the Muslim woman to not be ventured out unescorted.
The SG even showed a report that a Muslim women pilot who flies across countries is dropped by his husband because according to Sharia Laws a woman cannot or does not have the right to drive a car.
Tushar Mehta concluded his arguments according to which state advocate Prabhuling K Navadgi will continue.
