LIVE updates on the Karnataka hijab row: The hearing is done for the day, and case the HC has adjourned the case until tomorrow. 

Karnataka is still enraged over the hijab issue. The Karnataka High Court panel hearing the case on Monday noted that the applicants were seeking not just right to wear the headscarf, but also a statement that it become part of a religious mandate binding on all Muslims. 

Karnataka is still outraged over the hijab issue. The Karnataka High Court panel hearing the case on Monday noted that the petitioners were seeking not just choice to wear the headscarf, but also a statement that it become part of a religious mandate binding on all Muslims.

The administration further stated that hijab is not an obligatory Islamic religious practise. Meanwhile, the prohibition order that has been in effect around Bengaluru educational institutions has been stretched until March 8. 

On Thursday, a lawyer representing kids who want to wear hijab to school petitioned the Karnataka High Court to allow these pupils to wear hijab and take classes at least on Fridays. 

For the students, senior counsel Vinod Kulakarni argued that the hijab issue has sparked public frenzy and mental disturbances across the country, and that forcing poor Muslim girls out the of class violates the Constitution’s preamble. 

At the very least on Fridays (and during the subsequent holy month of Ramzan, which begins in March), he added, invoking a Lata Mangeshkar song, “.. Kuch paake khona hai, kuch khoke paana hai” (to obtain some you lose, you end up loosing something to get something), and requesting court orders in this regard. 

With folded hands, I ask you to allow hijab on Fridays so that unneeded controversy can be avoided,” he added, adding that the Quran cannot be disregarded and that hijab was not about public order. According to him, outside authorities have no footing and no jurisdiction to issue directives in religious matters and beliefs. 

Edited by : Subhash Sahu

Published by : K. Bindhiya Prarthana