Petitioner asks what right colleges have to decide on religious subject
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court that resumed hearing pleas filed by Muslim students seeking an order to continue wearing hijab in the classrooms heard that the education institutions do not have statutory to draft public order.
Senior advocate Devadatt Kamat, who appeared for students, opposed the College Development Committee's right to decide on a religious subject like hijab.
Urging the court to allow the students to attend classes with their hijab on and continue their education, Kamat questioned the sudden hijab ban by the educational intuitions, calling them to prove that on what basis the headscarf is prohibited.
He also said that Muslims students have been wearing headscarf for years together.
After a near week-long Hijab row forced holiday, high schools in Karnataka reopened on Monday, amid prohibitory orders in Udupi, which witnessed violence and tension last week and sensitive areas of Dakshina Kannada and Bengaluru.
Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code has been imposed in sensitive areas in the said districts.
In Udupi district, all the schools that reopened today witnessed normal attendance, Education Department sources said. Muslim girl students who reached the school campuses wearing hijabs removed them before entering classes. Examinations scheduled for the day are also going on in the institutions.
The district administration has imposed Section 144 of CrPC around a 200-metre radius of all high schools in the district from Monday till February 19 to maintain peace.