Damoh hijab case: Private school attempts to mislead, says 'its scarf, not hijab'
1 year, 6 months ago

Damoh hijab case: Private school attempts to mislead, says 'its scarf, not hijab'

Op India  

On Friday, in the Damoh hijab case where Hindu and Jain girls were seen wearing Hijab on the posters of meritorious students from a private school, along with in several photos on Facebook, the school administrator Haji Mohammad Idris claimed that the students were wearing scarves and not hijabs. मध्यप्रदेश के दमोह ज़िले में एक स्कूल द्वारा हिंदू और अन्य ग़ैर मुस्लिम बच्चियों को स्कूल यूनीफ़ॉर्म के नाम पर जबरन बुर्का व हिजाब पहनाये जाने की शिकायत प्राप्त हुई है। इसका संज्ञान लिया जा रहा है एवं आवश्यक कार्यवाही हेतु @CollectorDamoh व पुलिस अधीक्षक दमोह को निर्देश प्रेषित… — प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo May 30, 2023 Notably, Hindu organisations have been protesting against the school administration since 2021. Damoh, Madhya Pradesh: Poster's of Hindu girls wearing Hijab installed outside a pvt school are circulating widely on the internet since morning. Here are some clips from the school events, poems of Allama Iqbal: pic.twitter.com/uxTWGXupGl — Subhi Vishwakarma May 31, 2023 Meanwhile, Hindu groups protested outside the district collector’s office, proclaiming that the school compels Hindu female pupils to wear the hijab.

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Hijab row: Indirect discrimination at the centre of the ongoing legal tangle
4 months, 1 week ago

Hijab row: Indirect discrimination at the centre of the ongoing legal tangle

Hindustan Times  

On August 9, the Supreme Court of India partly stayed the instructions regarding the dress code to be followed by students issued by Chembur Trombay Education Society’s NG Acharya and DK Marathe College, a private college in Mumbai. The petitioners, three female Muslim students, had approached the apex court challenging the judgment of a division bench of the Bombay High …

Judge the use of veil as a cultural practice
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge the use of veil as a cultural practice

Hindustan Times  

Here is another judicial pronouncement on hijab — the professedly Islamic dress code for women. In May this year, a college in Chembur issued instructions to its students saying, “You shall follow the dress code of the college of formal and decent dress which shall not reveal anyone’s religion. The counsel of the petitioners cited a number of Supreme Court …

Hijab ban part of dress code, not against Muslims, Mumbai college tells HC
6 months ago

Hijab ban part of dress code, not against Muslims, Mumbai college tells HC

Hindustan Times  

A city-based college on Wednesday argued before the Bombay High Court that the ban on hijab, naqab and burka on its premises was only meant to enforce a uniform dress code and did not seek to target the Muslim community. Students wearing Hijab Nine female students last week moved the HC challenging the directive issued by the Chembur Trombay Education …

Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges Ban On Hijab At Mumbai's NG Acharya And DK Marathe College
6 months, 1 week ago

Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges Ban On Hijab At Mumbai's NG Acharya And DK Marathe College

Live Law  

Nine students from Mumbai's NG Acharya and D. K. Marathe College of Art, Science and Commerce have approached the Bombay High Court challenging a recently implemented dress code by the college authorities prohibiting students from wearing hijab on the campus. The petition states that on May 13, 2024, the petitioners attempted to discuss their concerns with the college management and …

What To Eat, Wear, or Practise: Can BJP Focus on Governance Instead of Policing?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

What To Eat, Wear, or Practise: Can BJP Focus on Governance Instead of Policing?

The Quint  

In another video, the Hawa Mahal MLA asks school authorities to stop students from wearing the hijab in school, which has a healthy mix of Hindu and Muslim kids. In a video that surfaced afterwards, he is seen on stage, leading the students in chants of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and "Saraswati Mata Ki Jai”. It also shows Acharya walking …

No room for hijab yet in Karnataka
11 months, 3 weeks ago

No room for hijab yet in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Will the Karnataka government revoke the order that, in effect, imposes a ban on girl students wearing the hijab in classrooms? Soon, protests flared up across Karnataka, with a section of Hindu students insisting that they would wear saffron shawls if Muslim girls were allowed to wear the hijab. The video of a burqa-clad college girl, Muskaan, being heckled by …

MP: Hindu girls made to wear hijab and sing Islamic songs on Eid in a school in Guna
1 year, 2 months ago

MP: Hindu girls made to wear hijab and sing Islamic songs on Eid in a school in Guna

Op India  

On 27 September, a day before Eid Milad-un-Nabi, a dance programme was organised in which all students, including Hindus, were made to wear the hijab and sing Islamic songs in a private school located in Guna, Madhya Pradesh. A small student is Hindu girls in a private school in Guna, MP made to wear hijab and sing Islam1c songs. Workers …

Teacher partially shaves 14 Muslim girls’ hair over hijab dress code in Indonesia
1 year, 3 months ago

Teacher partially shaves 14 Muslim girls’ hair over hijab dress code in Indonesia

The Hindu  

A school on Indonesia's main island has partially shaved the heads of more than a dozen girls, its headmaster said Mondaon August 28, after they were accused of wearing their Islamic hijab headscarves incorrectly. Activists say Muslim and non-Muslim girls have been forced for years to wear a hijab in conservative parts of the archipelago nation of 270 million people, …

Muslim girls protest outside Mumbai college for banning burqa and hijab
1 year, 4 months ago

Muslim girls protest outside Mumbai college for banning burqa and hijab

Op India  

On Wednesday, August 2, protests were staged outside the NG Acharya & DK Marathe College in Mumbai’s Chembur against the college’s uniform policy. Responding to the query on the students being asked to remove the burqa outside the college gate, Vidya Gauri Lele said, “Yes, earlier it was said to remove their burqas before entering the college. Karnataka Hijab Controversy …

Why are Kerala medical students demanding alternatives to hijab inside operating theatres?
1 year, 5 months ago

Why are Kerala medical students demanding alternatives to hijab inside operating theatres?

Firstpost  

Women students from Kerala’s Government Medical College, citing their religious beliefs, have penned a letter to the principal asking they be allowed to wear long sleeve scrub jackets and surgical hoods in operating theatres. Some medical students have demanded that they be allowed to wear long sleeve scrub jackets and surgical hoods inside operation theatres as an alternative to the …

Hyderabad: School Principal, Teachers Booked in Hijab Row at Hayathnagar School
1 year, 5 months ago

Hyderabad: School Principal, Teachers Booked in Hijab Row at Hayathnagar School

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A school in Hayathnagar barred two Muslim Class 10 students from wearing headscarves, or hijabs, in classrooms, leading to a series of confrontations between the students and teachers. Police booked the principal and three teachers of Zee High School, where the alleged incident took place. The police said that the incident followed a previous conversation between school principal Purnadevi …

Damoh school case: Principal of Ganga Jamna School, where Hindu girls were wearing Hijab in a poster, teacher and a security guard arrested
1 year, 6 months ago

Damoh school case: Principal of Ganga Jamna School, where Hindu girls were wearing Hijab in a poster, teacher and a security guard arrested

Op India  

In a major development in the Ganga Jamna School row in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district, three persons including the school principal have been arrested by police, officials said on Sunday. According to the police, Ganga Jamna School in MP’s Damoh hit the headlines after purported posters of the school went viral on social media in which a few Hindu girls …

Damoh Hijab Case: District Education Officer to be removed for giving clean chit to Ganga Jamuna School
1 year, 6 months ago

Damoh Hijab Case: District Education Officer to be removed for giving clean chit to Ganga Jamuna School

Op India  

In an update to the ongoing hijab controversy at the Ganga Jamuna School in the Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh, School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar revealed that Damoh Collector Mayank Agarwal is trying to save the District Education Officer SK Mishra who is found guilty as per the prima facie information obtained. Confirming the DEO’s negative involvement in the …

Row in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh after poster shows schoolgirls in hijab, CM orders probe
1 year, 6 months ago

Row in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh after poster shows schoolgirls in hijab, CM orders probe

India Today  

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a probe into a poster put up by a private school in Damoh district in which schoolgirls, irrespective of their religion, were seen wearing hijab. Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered a probe after an inquiry was already collected by Damoh district administration and the allegations of Hindu girls being forced to wear …

MP: Probe ordered against private school after posters of hijab-clad Hindu and Jain students surfaced
1 year, 6 months ago

MP: Probe ordered against private school after posters of hijab-clad Hindu and Jain students surfaced

Op India  

A major controversy erupted in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh after it was claimed that a private school is forcing students to wear a “hijab.” The accusations were made following the publication of an Ganga Jamuna Higher Secondary School is a private, English-medium established in ward number 4 of the Futera neighbourhood in the Damoh region. Priyank Kanoongo, the head …

New probe into MP school poster over ‘hijab’ row after MP home minister steps in
1 year, 6 months ago

New probe into MP school poster over ‘hijab’ row after MP home minister steps in

Hindustan Times  

BHOPAL/SAGAR: Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra on Wednesday ordered a detailed police inquiry into a poster by a private school congratulating 18 students for their performance in the board examination after a controversy erupted on social media over the girls wearing headscarves irrespective of their religion. Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra ordered a detailed inquiry after the first …

Hijabs during exams: Karnataka girl students move SC seeking permission; CJI says will form bench
1 year, 10 months ago

Hijabs during exams: Karnataka girl students move SC seeking permission; CJI says will form bench

India Today  

A group of girl students from Karnataka on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing on their plea, seeking permission to sit for exams while wearing hijab. After the Karnataka government banned the wearing of hijab in Government Pre-University Colleges, several Muslim students had to move to private colleges. The top court in October 2022 delivered a split …

Education of women is key
1 year, 11 months ago

Education of women is key

Hindustan Times  

A decision by a group of students from Karnataka to approach the Supreme Court has, once again, underlined the appalling cost exacted by the protracted row over hijab s on the lives and educational pursuits of thousands of women. The students approached the top court on Monday, seeking a directive to government institutions in Karnataka to allow them to appear …

Closing The Gates To Education: Violations Of Rights Of Muslim Women Students: PUCL’s Report On Hijab Ban
1 year, 11 months ago

Closing The Gates To Education: Violations Of Rights Of Muslim Women Students: PUCL’s Report On Hijab Ban

Live Law  

On 31st December, 2021, Government Girls PU College, Udupi imposed a sudden restriction on the hijab inside classrooms. On January 9, a report was published by People’s Union for Civil Liberties -Karnataka, which had undertaken a study titled as “Closing the Gates to Education: Violations of Rights of Muslim women students.” to investigate the impact of the imposed ban on …

The case of the hijab
2 years, 1 month ago

The case of the hijab

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 03, 2022 10:25 IST This is a writ petition challenging a regulation of the State Education Board concerning the dress code for schools. A recently oft-repeated phrase—public authority administering regulation with an evil eye and an unequal hand—comes to mind from the hallowed judgment of Justice Vivian Bose in Anwar Ali Sarkar’s case. “One can well sympathise …

Karnataka hijab ban | Individual’s belief matters in religious issues, agree judges
2 years, 2 months ago

Karnataka hijab ban | Individual’s belief matters in religious issues, agree judges

The Hindu  

Though the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a split verdict on students’ right to wear hijab in school, both judges on the Bench seemed to agree that believers or worshippers are the best persons to interpret whether a practice is essential to their religion or not. The Karnataka High Court had concluded that wearing hijab was not an essential religious …

Opinion: We Are All Mahsa Amini And Muskaan Khan
2 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: We Are All Mahsa Amini And Muskaan Khan

ABP News  

Iran and India are the top focus now all over the world, over two sides of an issue that has one demand at the core of it — women's right to bodily autonomy. The Hijab Conundrum In Iran People say a false sense of equivalence is being drawn between the hijab ban in India and the women who are fighting …

India’s Supreme Court panel split on allowing hijab in classrooms
2 years, 2 months ago

India’s Supreme Court panel split on allowing hijab in classrooms

Al Jazeera  

The matter arises from a ban in BJP-ruled Karnataka state that forbids students from wearing the headscarves in classrooms. “It is ultimately a matter of choice,” said the other judge, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, as he set aside the Karnataka High Court order. The issue of the hijab ban started when female Muslim students wearing hijab were barred in January this …

No Fundamental Right To Wear Hijab In Classroom Defying Uniform Rule : Karnataka AG Tells Supreme Court [Day 9]
2 years, 3 months ago

No Fundamental Right To Wear Hijab In Classroom Defying Uniform Rule : Karnataka AG Tells Supreme Court [Day 9]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today continued hearing the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgment which upheld the ban on wearing hijab by Muslim students in educational institutions. He submitted that if it is held that there is no fundamental right to wear hijab under Article 25, what remains before the Court is the reasonableness of the restriction of uniform in …

Iran Hijab Row: Why is there an objection of wearing Hijab in Islamic country? | Panchnama
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran Hijab Row: Why is there an objection of wearing Hijab in Islamic country? | Panchnama

ABP News  

Senior advocate Dushyant Dave, representing some of the petitioners challenging the Karnataka High Court judgement on hijab, on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the hijab adds dignity and makes a woman very dignified when she wears it, like a Hindu woman who covers her head - it is very dignified. A bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia …

Students were goaded into wearing hijab to school by PFI through social media, Karnataka tells SC
2 years, 3 months ago

Students were goaded into wearing hijab to school by PFI through social media, Karnataka tells SC

The Hindu  

Karnataka in Supreme Court on September 20, 2022 said students were goaded into wearing hijab to school by the Popular Front of India through social media messages. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Hemant Gupta, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said no student was insisting on hijab till 2022. Mr. Mehta said the agitation on hijab was part of a …

Karnataka hijab ban | Wearing hijab is an expression of the self, says Sibal
2 years, 3 months ago

Karnataka hijab ban | Wearing hijab is an expression of the self, says Sibal

The Hindu  

Hijab is a Muslim woman’s self-expression. Watch | Karnataka’s hijab controversy explained The senior counsel, appearing for a student-petitioner against Karnataka’s ban on wearing hijab in classrooms, said the Supreme Court should refer the case to a Constitution Bench, which should in turn first decide whether “wearing a dress is self-expression, which lies both at the heart of the fundamental …

Hijab ban amounts to discrimination: Student-petitioner tells Supreme Court
2 years, 3 months ago

Hijab ban amounts to discrimination: Student-petitioner tells Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The prohibition imposed on Muslim students from wearing hijab in classrooms in Karnataka should not be viewed as a “simple case of discipline” but as discrimination on the ground of sex and religion, senior advocate Rajiv Dhavan told the Supreme Court on September 14. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Hemant Gupta for student-petitioner Aliya Assadi, Mr. Dhavan said …

Question Of Essential Religious Practice Does Not Arise If Hijab Is Shown To Be Bonafide Practice In Muslim Women: Sr Adv Rajeev Dhavan Tells Supreme Court [Day-5]
2 years, 3 months ago

Question Of Essential Religious Practice Does Not Arise If Hijab Is Shown To Be Bonafide Practice In Muslim Women: Sr Adv Rajeev Dhavan Tells Supreme Court [Day-5]

Live Law  

Right to Dress is part of free speech and is subject to reasonable restrictions for public order; Doctrine of privacy; Essential Practices Test; Person wearing hijab cannot be discriminated against on grounds of religion and sex. He said that the High Court's finding that since Quran does not prescribe any punishment for not wearing hijab, it is not mandatory, is …

Karnataka Government needs to justify the restraint on wearing hijabs, says petitioners’ counsel
2 years, 3 months ago

Karnataka Government needs to justify the restraint on wearing hijabs, says petitioners’ counsel

The Hindu  

Karnataka has to first prove how forbidding hijab among students affects the sovereignty and integrity of India, its security or friendly relations with foreign states or even public order, decency or morality, the Sharia Committee of Women argued against the ban on Muslim girls wearing hijab to school. “Wearing of hijab does not confer any special benefit to the Muslim …

AIMPLB slams hijab-clad school girls dancing at Onam celebrations
2 years, 3 months ago

AIMPLB slams hijab-clad school girls dancing at Onam celebrations

Op India  

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board slammed hijab-clad girls whose video of celebrating Onam had gone viral on the internet. On Friday, the hijab wearing Islamist girls in a high school at Wandoor town in the Malappuram district of Kerala celebrated the festival of Onam with much gusto and excitement. All India Muslim Personal Law Board criticised the hijab …

Hijab Case| Secularism Doesn't Mean Students Of Only One Faith Won't Display Religion : Devadatt Kamat Before Supreme Court [Day 2]
2 years, 3 months ago

Hijab Case| Secularism Doesn't Mean Students Of Only One Faith Won't Display Religion : Devadatt Kamat Before Supreme Court [Day 2]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, continued hearing the batch of petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgment which upheld the ban on wearing of Hijab by Muslim girl students in some schools and colleges in the State. Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat appearing for the Petitioners argued that the Government Order is not "innocuous", as argued by the State, but violates …

Supreme Court asks whether the right to wear hijab can be exercised in a school with a dress code
2 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court asks whether the right to wear hijab can be exercised in a school with a dress code

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Monday asked whether a student can exercise her private religious right to wear a hijab in a school which adheres to a dress code. Mr. Dhawan said the questions before the court were basically two: one, given a dress code, is there a right to superimpose on that a religious right as well, and how can …

WATCH: Amid Karnataka's hijab controversy, Kerala students in headgear celebrate Onam in school
2 years, 3 months ago

WATCH: Amid Karnataka's hijab controversy, Kerala students in headgear celebrate Onam in school

Firstpost  

The viral video shows several hijab-wearing students of Wandoor Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Malappuram wearing sarees and dancing to music, along with their other school mates, as part of the Onam celebrations held in their institutions Malappuram: A short video clip of Hijab wearing students celebrating Onam in a high school in Wandoor area of this northern Kerala …

Karnataka: 23 girls suspended from Mangaluru college for wearing hijab
2 years, 6 months ago

Karnataka: 23 girls suspended from Mangaluru college for wearing hijab

Hindustan Times  

A government college in Mangaluru has suspended 23 students who wore hijabs to their classrooms despite repeated warnings, news agency PTI reported. The incident at Uppinangady Government First Grade College in Puttur Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district comes barely a week after the same college, affiliated with Mangalore University, suspended four students who had come to college wearing hijab. The …

Hijab controversy: Two Udupi student-petitioners not allowed to take exams wearing burqa
2 years, 8 months ago

Hijab controversy: Two Udupi student-petitioners not allowed to take exams wearing burqa

India TV News  

Highlights The girls returned from the examination centre after they arrived wearing burqas The girls were asked to follow the dress code but the refused and returned Karnataka HC had earlier declared that educational institutions have a right to prescribe uniforms Two girl students who had first petitioned the court seeking permission to wear Hijab inside classrooms in Karnataka's Udupi …

Judicial letdown: Karnataka High Court upholds ban on hijab in classrooms
2 years, 8 months ago

Judicial letdown: Karnataka High Court upholds ban on hijab in classrooms

The Hindu  

IN an interview in early February, three of the six girls who insisted on wearing the hijab in their classroom at Government Girls Pre-University College in Udupi and had filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court, spoke about their ambitions in life. The girls seemed to have lost some of that confidence on March 15 when five of …

Another Karnataka teacher suspended for allowing girl to wear hijab during exam in Kalaburagi
2 years, 8 months ago

Another Karnataka teacher suspended for allowing girl to wear hijab during exam in Kalaburagi

India Today  

A teacher in Karnataka's Kalaburagi district was allegedly suspended for allowing a girl student to wear hijab during an exam on Thursday. On Wednesday, seven teachers in the Gadag district were suspended for allowing girl students to wear the hijab as they appeared for the SSLC exams. READ: Karnataka hijab row: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed welcomes HC's verdict | Video …

Hijab issue: 40 Muslim girls abstain from PU exams in Udupi
2 years, 8 months ago

Hijab issue: 40 Muslim girls abstain from PU exams in Udupi

Deccan Chronicle  

Udupi: Forty Muslim girl students from Udupi district of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside classrooms. Six among the eight girl students of Navunda Government PU College abstained from the examinations, while only two out of 10 Muslim girls …

Hijab controversy: 40 Muslim girls abstain from PU exams in Udupi
2 years, 8 months ago

Hijab controversy: 40 Muslim girls abstain from PU exams in Udupi

India TV News  

Forty Muslim girl students from Udupi district of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside classrooms. The Karnataka High Court on March 15 had dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom, saying the headscarf is not a …

Muslim girls wearing hijab not allowed to write Karnataka SSLC exam 2022
2 years, 8 months ago

Muslim girls wearing hijab not allowed to write Karnataka SSLC exam 2022

India Today  

On Monday, in Karnataka, a few Muslim girls who wished to appear for their Class 10 board exams wearing hijab were not allowed to enter the examination hall, citing the recent High Court verdict. However, as per PTI, the majority of Muslim students chose to write their exams without hijab, saying that the Class 10 exam was more important for …

Hijab Judgment: More Questions Than Answers
2 years, 8 months ago

Hijab Judgment: More Questions Than Answers

Live Law  

In my view the consequence of Hijab Judgment is of making a song and dance about nothing. The High Court judgment, one portion of TMA Pai judgment of the Supreme Court is cited to say that 'it is necessary for all to maintain discipline and abide by the rules and regulations that have been lawfully framed' but the other part …

Two freedoms and the hijab in our midst
2 years, 9 months ago

Two freedoms and the hijab in our midst

The Hindu  

Upon hearing the petitions of Muslim students seeking permission to wear the hijab inside educational institutions, the Karnataka High Court recently ruled that wearing the hijab is not an essential practice in Islam. One is whether Muslim women ‘freely’ choose to wear the hijab or do so because they are socially conditioned to believe that al haya is a womanly …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Don’t ‘weaponise’ hijab, time to be more flexible
2 years, 9 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Don’t ‘weaponise’ hijab, time to be more flexible

Deccan Chronicle  

The three-judge bench of the Karnataka high court has flatly rejected the petition of the six girls from the Pre-University Government College in Udupi and others from Kundapur and Bengaluru that the hijab is an “essential part” of Islam. It can only be conjectured that the Hindu communal elements in the school administration chose to act against the hijab, and …

Nine students wearing Hijab, return without appearing for exam
2 years, 9 months ago

Nine students wearing Hijab, return without appearing for exam

Deccan Chronicle  

Udupi: Nine students of Government First Grade College in Kaup of Udupi district returned home without appearing for the examination after they were banned to enter the class wearing Hijab. The college authorities denied permission to wear Hijab quoting the High Court order. The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ruled that Hijab is not an essential practice in Islam and …

Now all religious symbols will be allowed in schools except hijab, says Owaisi after K'taka HC verdict
2 years, 9 months ago

Now all religious symbols will be allowed in schools except hijab, says Owaisi after K'taka HC verdict

India Today  

A day after the Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions challenging the ban on hijab in some educational institutes in the state, AIMIM chief and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that all religious symbols would now be permitted in these institutes except the hijab. Earlier, a BJP minister in Karnataka had said institutes shouldn’t stop girls if they wear sindoor.” …

Udupi girls not to attend class without hijab, to continue legal fight
2 years, 9 months ago

Udupi girls not to attend class without hijab, to continue legal fight

Deccan Chronicle  

Udupi: The Udupi Muslim girls who had approached the High Court seeking permission to wear Hijab in classrooms, said that they will not attend class without Hijab and continue their legal fight. The High Court upheld the Karnataka Government’s dress code and ruled that Hijab does not form part of essential religious practice. It is because of the college authorities’ …

Hijab ban in classroom: SC to hear pleas against Karnataka HC verdict after Holi vacation
2 years, 9 months ago

Hijab ban in classroom: SC to hear pleas against Karnataka HC verdict after Holi vacation

Firstpost  

A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana took note of the submissions of senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for some students, that urgent hearing was needed keeping in mind the upcoming examinations. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for hearing after Holi vacation the pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict which dismissed the petitions …

Hijab controversy: Supreme Court to hear pleas contesting Karnataka HC verdict after Holi
2 years, 9 months ago

Hijab controversy: Supreme Court to hear pleas contesting Karnataka HC verdict after Holi

India TV News  

Highlights HC on Tuesday said that the Karnataka government order dated February 5 is not unconstitutional HC also declared that educational institutions have a right to prescribe uniforms It said prescription of uniform is a reasonable restriction which students could not object to The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for hearing after Holi vacation the pleas challenging the …

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