Last Update: March 03, 2023, 13:28 IST
The matter was last mentioned for urgent hearing by advocate Shadan Farasat, appearing for the students (Representational image/PTI)
The Supreme Court had said that it would consider a plea to allow Muslim girl students in government schools in Karnataka to appear in examinations wearing hijabs.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would constitute a three-judge bench to hear the plea of Muslim girl students wearing hijab to appear for examinations in government schools in Karnataka.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala said, “I will form a bench,” after a woman lawyer sought urgent hearing of the plea, which said the girls were on the verge of losing another academic year. But because the examinations are being conducted. In government schools where wearing headscarf is not allowed.
Initially, the CJI said that the matter would be listed for hearing after the Holi vacations.
The exam is scheduled to be held after five days, the lawyer said, adding, “They have missed a year. He will miss another year. On being told by the bench that the matter has been mentioned on the last day of the vacation, the counsel said that it has been mentioned twice earlier as well.
The bench said without specifying a date that it would form the bench.
The matter was last mentioned for urgent hearing by advocate Shadan Farasat, appearing for the students.
The court had said that it would consider listing a plea to allow Muslim girl students in government schools in Karnataka to wear hijab and appear in examinations.
The bench was told that following the apex court’s split verdict on the issue of banning the wearing of Islamic headscarf in educational institutions in Karnataka, girls in hijab are not being allowed to appear for the examination, which is scheduled to begin on March 9.
On March 15, 2022, The High Court dismissed petitions by a section of Muslim students of Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, Karnataka seeking permission to wear hijab inside classrooms, ruling that it is an essential religious practice is not part of. in the Islamic faith.
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