Supreme Court Agrees To List Hijab Case Next Week

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list week the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgment which upheld the ban of hijab in educational institutions.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan mentioned the matter before the Chief Justice of India for urgent listing.

"These are the Hijab Matters from Karnataka. Not been listed at all. Filed in March. Students are facing difficulties", Bhushan submitted,

"Two benches are not functioning. So we had to re-distribute. Let us see some time it'll come next week. List next week before appropriate bench", CJI Ramana said.

The SLP has been filed against the judgment dated March 15 passed by the High Court of Karnataka, upholding Government Order dated 05.02.2022, which has effectively prohibited Petitioners, and other such female Muslim students from wearing the headscarf in their Pre-University Colleges. A Full Bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice JM Khazi held that wearing of hijab by women was not an essential religious practice of Islam. The Bench further held the prescription of uniform dress code in educational institutions was not violative of the fundamental rights of the petiitoners.