Student moves Supreme Court against HC ruling on hijab
The HinduA student on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the Karnataka High Court judgment, which held that wearing hijab is not an essential practice in Islam. “This freedom would include the freedom to lawfully express one’s identity in the manner of their liking,” she referred to the Supreme Court judgment in the Navtej Singh Johar case. The student said she and several others like her had approached the High Court, expecting it to protect her fundamental rights and quash a State government order of February 5 directing college development committees to prescribe uniforms for them. She termed the State government’s order as as a “ridiculing attack” on Muslim students wearing hijab under the “guise of attaining secularity and equality on the basis of uniform”. In February, in a petition connected to the Karnataka hijab controversy, the Supreme Court made a preliminary remark that it would protect the constitutional rights of students and intervene an “appropriate time”.