Dakshina Kannada DC ordered holiday for tomorrow (15 March) in all schools and colleges.
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, an order has been issued in Bengaluru banning gatherings, agitations, protests or any kind of gatherings in public places in the city for a week.
Here’s a 10-point cheatsheet of all the facts ahead of the verdict:
- Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant said all forms of gathering, movement, protest or function in public places are banned in Bengaluru for a week from March 15 to March 2.
- Officials said Sector 144 was cordoned off in Shivamogga, Udupi, Kalaburagi. All educational institutions in the district will remain closed tomorrow. Kalburgi DC Yashwant V Gurukar said, “In view of yesterday’s decision on the hijab controversy, the district administration has imposed section 144 from 8 pm today to 6 am on March 19. All educational institutions in the district will remain closed tomorrow.”
- Dakshina Kannada DC ordered holiday for tomorrow (15 March) in all schools and colleges. External examinations will be held as per schedule but internal examinations of all schools and colleges will be postponed: Dr Rajendra KV, DC, Dakshina Kannada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- As the hijab vs saffron scarf issue spread to several educational institutions in many parts of Karnataka, the state government declared holidays 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 is hearing the matter daily from February 10.
- In its interim order, the bench asked the state government to reopen educational institutions affected by the agitation, and barred students from wearing hijab and saffron scarves in class till the final order is passed.
(With inputs from ANI, PTI)