Religious attire banned till the final verdict : Karnataka High Court

Bengaluru (Karnataka) – The Karnataka High Court made it clear that till the arrival of the final verdict on the petitions regarding the Hijab Issue, the students must follow the uniforms prescribed by the schools and colleges. Mohammad Tahir, the advocate of the petitioners had lodged a petition saying, ‘Please explain your temporary decision regarding the Hijab Issue. By giving the reference of your (the Court’s) orders, many schools and colleges are denying entry to the girls in hijab’. Rituraj Awasthi gave the above clarification to the advocate. The Court also made it clear that this rule is limited only to the students. ‘In certain educational institutions, even the teachers are asked to remove the hijab’, alleged the advocate at the time of the hearing.

The arguments by advocate Nagananda in favour of banning hijab,

The advocate showed the photograph of the Aadhar card of a girl filing the petition. In that, she was not wearing a hijab. Those who are in favour of the hijab should always wear it, even in the Aadhar photograph.
The organisation ‘Campus front of India’ wishes to try to get permission for wearing hijab in colleges. Since 2004, it is mandatory to wear uniforms and everyone is following it, but now, the organisation is provoking people to wear hijab. Teachers in some schools are accused of threatening the students. Whereas in reality, the teacher has only said, “If you are not going to sit in the class, you will be marked absent.” How can this be called threatening ? The Court’s time has been wasted by such petitions.

If a child is not behaving properly, he should be explained first. Still, if he doesn’t listen, he has to be slapped. The same has to be done in the class.

The administration says that you are sending the children to the schools, so the school will teach them discipline. Some devout Brahmins don’t wear shirts after their ‘upanayana’. What will happen if they come without wearing a shirt to the school ?