Karnataka Hijab Row News Updates Today: The Karnataka High court hearing the Hijab issue on Thursday asked students not to insist on wearing any cloth on campuses of educational institutions which can instigate people, till the matter is resolved. Posted the matter for Monday, the full court also said the educational institutions can resume classes for the students. The three-judge full bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna S Dixit, which was formed on Wednesday, also said it wants the matter to be resolved at the earliest but till that time peace and tranquillity is to be maintained.
The Hijab row started in December end when a few students started coming to the government pre-university college in Udupi wearing Hijab. To protest against it, some Hindu students turned up wearing saffron scarves. The row spread to other educational institutions in different parts of the State, and the protests took a violent turn at some place earlier this week, prompting the government on Tuesday to declare three days holiday for the institutions.
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Karnataka Hijab Row Live: Schools should be opened, if this happens I will be very happy. When no interim relief has been granted, every institution has the right to fix its own dress as per the notification of the Act. Schools should be run accordingly...A meeting will be held today evening under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister. Further decision will be taken on the basis of the High Court order in the matter: Karnataka Education minister BC Nagesh
Uniforms should be donned in schools. You are free to wear whatever you want, outside school. Priyanka Gandhi said women can wear bikini but one can't go to school, college wearing a bikini. It's not right to play politics in the school: BJP General Secretary CT Ravi on hijab row
Karnataka Hijab News Live: High court restrains students from wearing religious cloths. The court said that students should not wear any religious cloth inside educational institutions till final orders.
Karnataka Hijab News Live Updates: Karnataka High Court adjourns for Monday the hearing on petitions challenging the State government rule on dress code in schools.
Karnataka Hijab News Live: "We should avoid incidents that can further divide society. It’s unfortunate that some people are trying to gain political mileage out of it. Indian culture & Constitution don't teach us to divide people on caste and religious lines....Our country is a secular country and we should behave accordingly," says Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Hijab row
Our fundamental right is held hostage to some school committee. The GO says prohibition of head scarf is not a violation of Article 25. The GO is not as innocuous as the State says: Devdutt Kama, petitioners' lawyer
Petitioner's lawyer Devdutt Kamat: This is not a issue of uniform. The students were wearing uniform. They only wanted to wear the head scarf of the same colour. The State has issued a GO saying head scarf cannot be worn. This is part of their religious culture. This is an innocuous practice.
Karnataka Hijab News Live: Advocate General says the government want to start the institutions. "We want the children to come. But we cannot start with one set of students coming with head scarfs and another set coming with saffron shawls. They must go back to status quo ante," said the AG.
Karnataka Hijab News Live: Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioner says, "In the Karnataka Education Act, there is no special provisions that deal with uniform." He recalls his university days & says there was no uniform in his times. "Uniform was more of school phenomenon during earlier days, uniform for colleges came in much later," senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing for the petitioners added.
Karnataka Hijab Row Live Updates Today: CJI urges media not to report observations made by the court during hearing.
Karnataka Hijab News Live updates: Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala urged students not to fall prey to the design of fanatics and reject the agenda of hate. In an open letter to students and parents, he said they should not let the self-serving rhetoric of the 1 per cent of fanatics on either side to sacrifice their future. "Let's reject this agenda of hate and continue being friends, holding hands and walking together for a better future," he said in his letter, wishing a bright future for the students.
Karnataka Hijab News Today Live Updates: I'll hold a meeting with Primary & Secondary Edu Minister BC Nagesh & officials along with State Home Minister to discuss briefly whatever happened. Will take a decision today evening on extending closure of all high schools & colleges, says CM Basavaraj Bommai
Karnataka Hijab News Live: I appeal to people to not stage unnecessary protests on such issues. The incident has happened in some other state, we should not protest over it here. I appeal to people to maintain peace, says Maharashtra HM Dilip Walse Patil on protests over Hijab row spread to Maharashtra
Karnataka Hijab News Live Updates: I appeal to outsiders to not disturb peace and tranquility in school campuses and in the State. It is our duty to create a peaceful atmosphere so that justice can be delivered, says Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai on hijab row, in Bengaluru
Karnataka Hijab News Live: Supreme Court refuses to intervene in Hijab Ban case, says let Karnataka High Court hear the issue first.
Karnataka Hijab News Live Updates: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has also condemned the row over Muslim girls' rights to wear the hijab in educational institutions and said attempts are being made to inject communal venom in the minds of children.
Karnataka Hijab News High Court Live: A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice J M Khazi will hear the case today. Earlier, Justice Dixit was hearing the case and referred it to a larger bench.
Karnataka Hijab News Live Updates: After educational institutions in Karnataka made dress code mandatory for students excluding the Hijab, Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlise-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party's activists put up banners in Maharashtra's Beed city supporting 'hijab' for female Muslim students. The banners conveyed the message 'pehle hijab fir kitaab' (hijab first, book later).
With the Hijab row making national headlines, around 200 women students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University yesterday held demonstration extending their support to Muslim students in Karnataka. The students said that prohibiting women from wearing hijab reflects the patriarchal and Islamophobic tendencies of the government.
Meanwhile, Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant has promulgated prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC against any gathering, agitation, or protests of any type within the area of 200-metre radius from the gates of the schools, pre-university colleges, degree colleges or other similar educational institutions in Bengaluru City for two weeks from Wednesday till February 22. The controversy erupted after the Karnataka government had issued an order to make uniforms prescribed by it or management of private institutions mandatory for its students at schools and pre-university colleges across the state last week.