Hijab ban: Muslim Personal Law Board appeals to Karnataka government to withdraw order
India TV NewsHighlights AIMPLA appealed to Karnataka govt to withdraw its order on the hijab It requested govt to withdraw its order regarding a ban on hijab in educational institutions Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia set aside the earlier judgment of Karnataka High Court on the hijab issue Hijab ban: After the Supreme Court's split verdict in the hijab case, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board appealed to the Karnataka government to withdraw its order on the hijab. Requesting the Karnataka government to withdraw its order regarding a ban on hijab in educational institutions, the board said that if the government does so, the issue would dissolve. On Thursday a bench of justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia pronounced a split judgement on the Hijab issue, as one upheld the Karnataka HC judgement, Justice Gupta, upholding the Karnataka High Court judgement, said, "The essential religious practices of the followers of Sikh faith cannot be made the basis of wearing of hijab/headscarf by the believers of the Islamic faith." "What constitutes Essential Religious Practices was left to the doctrine of that religion itself, said that "it may or may not be a matter of essential religious practice, but it still is, a matter of conscience, belief, and expression," Dhulia said while hearing various appeals challenging an order passed by the Full Bench of the Karnataka High Court on March 15, which dismissed the pleas challenging the Government order dated February 5.