Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing(Day 5)- LIVE UPDATES

Karnataka High Court Full Bench will continue hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the hijab ban in educational institutions.The matter is before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khazi will hear the petitions today at 2.30 PM.On Friday the Court requested the State to re-open the educational institutions at the earliest and has restrained students from wearing any sort of religious clothes in classrooms, regardless of their faith, while the matter is pending hearing.Senior advocate Devadatt Kamat appearing on behalf of aggrieved students made extensive arguments on Monday. It is the petitioner's case that the right to wear hijab is an essential religious practice under Islam, and the State is not empowered to interfere with such rights under Articles 14,19 and 25 of the Constitution.Kamat had underscored that the declaration made by the State government that wearing of a headscarf is not protected by Article 25 of the Constitution was "totally erroneous'. It was also submitted that the conduct of the State government in delegating to the College Development Committee (CDC) to decide whether to allow headscarves or not is 'totally illegal'.On Wednesday Prof Ravivarma Kumar, Senior Advocate, appearing on behalf of the petitioners today argued that the state is discriminating against Muslim girls, solely on the basis of their religion. He highlighted that the Government Order dated February 5 targets wearing of hijab whereas other religious symbols are not taken into account. This leads to hostile discrimination violating Article 15 of the Constitution.Sr Adv Yusuf Muchhala argued that the impugned GO, preventing Muslim girls from wearing headscarves, suffers from manifest arbitrariness. He referred to the principle of manifest arbitrariness used by the Supreme Court to strike down triple talaq in the Shayra Bano case."They are only putting one apron over their head. When we say uniform, we cannot strictly confine to the dress code. What was the practice adopted at school has to be seen. It has been changed without notice. Fairness requires notice. Fairness requires being heard."FOLLOW THE LIVE-UPDATES HERE

Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing(Day 5)- LIVE UPDATES

Adv Aditya Chatterjee mentions a new petition filed.
AG: Two petitions have now been served, which do not show cause of action. The petitioners are from private institutions. They have only questioned the GO.

Bench assembles.

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Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing(Day 5)- LIVE UPDATES

Adv Aditya Chatterjee mentions a new petition filed.AG: Two petitions have now been served, which do not show cause of action. The petitioners are from private institutions. They have only questioned the GO.

Bench assembles.

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Adv Aditya Chatterjee mentions a new petition filed.
AG: Two petitions have now been served, which do not show cause of action. The petitioners are from private institutions. They have only questioned the GO.