Students leave after not being allowed to attend classes wearing hijab at Dr G Shankar Government Women’s First Grade College in Udupi.
The Karnataka High Court bench is likely to deliver its verdict on the Hijab controversy on Tuesday. Ahead of the verdict in the hijab controversy case, the Bengaluru Police Commissioner has issued an order prohibiting gatherings, agitations, protests or any kind of celebrations in public places in the city for a week from March 15 to 21.
The case is seeking to allow Muslim girls to attend classes in schools and pre-university colleges that have a prescribed school uniform, leading to tension on the campuses of educational institutions in Karnataka.
According to lawyers appearing for the petitioner girls from Udupi district, the matter relating to the hijab case has been listed as number 1 for Tuesday and the court is likely to convey the active part of the judgment from 10.30 am.
A full bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khaji was constituted on February 9 on a petition filed by Udupi girls, who prayed that they should be allowed to wear hijab even inside the classroom. should be allowed. With school uniform because it was part of their faith.
On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi participated in a press conference organized by the Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town after the college authorities refused them to enter classes wearing headscarves. This was after four days that she requested major permission to wear the hijab in classes, which was not allowed. The principal of the college, Rudre Gowda, had said that till then the students used to wear headscarfs on the campus, but used to remove them and enter the class.
Gowda had said, “There was no rule to wear hijab in the institute because in the last 35 years no one wore it in class. The students who came with the demand were supported by outside forces.” As the hijab vs saffron scarf issue spread to several educational institutions in many parts of Karnataka, the state government declared a holiday from February 9 to February 15 in all pre-university colleges and February 9 to 16 in degree and diploma colleges. Of.
The girls then approached the Karnataka High Court seeking relief and on 5 February quashing the government order prohibiting students from wearing any clothes that could disturb peace, harmony and public order. The full bench of the High Court has been hearing the matter on a day-to-day basis since February 10. The bench, in its interim order, asked the state government to reopen the educational institutions affected by the agitation, and banned them. From making the students wear hijabs and saffron scarves to the class-room till the final orders arrive.
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