Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing(Day 3)- LIVE UPDATES

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15 Feb 2022 2:10 PM IST

  • Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing(Day 3)- 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...

    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.

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    • 15 Feb 2022 4:10 PM IST

      Kamat :This is an innocuous practise of wearing head scarf and not changing my uniform. This is a facet of freedom of speech and expression. If small exemption is given to wear headscarf, it will be in line with right to freedom of speech and expression.

    • 15 Feb 2022 4:05 PM IST

      Kamat : State says we are a secular state, we are not Turkey milords. Our Constitution provides positive secularism and all faiths have to be recognised.

    • 15 Feb 2022 4:03 PM IST

      Kamat quotes from SC judgment in Aruna Roy case - Our secularism is from a Vedic perspective "Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava"

    • 15 Feb 2022 4:02 PM IST

      Kamat : When your lordships passed the order last day, probably your lordships had secularism in mind. But our secularism is not Turkey secularism. Ours is positive secularism. We recognise all religions as true.

    • 15 Feb 2022 4:01 PM IST

      Kamat says there is judicial recognition to fact that "hecklers veto" cannot be allowed.

      "If I go on street, and somebody stops saying he does not like Devdatt Kamat, then State cannot stop me from going to the street saying it will create public order issue".

    • 15 Feb 2022 3:59 PM IST

      Kamat : If the state says if somebody wears a head scarf and it will lead to galata, therefore we cannot allow it, that is an impermissible argument.

    • 15 Feb 2022 3:57 PM IST

      Kamat refers to a SC judgment authored by Justice Chandrachud which makes a mention about growing intolerance.

    • 15 Feb 2022 3:56 PM IST

      Kamat : State cannot create a facile argument that public order is disrupted and it has to create a positive environment facilitating enjoyment of rights.

    • 15 Feb 2022 3:55 PM IST

      Kamat now on the point of whether public order can be invoked here.

      Kamat: Yesterday I was on the point that State cannot say that public order will be disturbed...

    • 15 Feb 2022 3:52 PM IST

      Kamat says he will give a written note about the judgments. CJ says that will be better.

      Kamat says the Canada judgment permitted a Sikh student to wear Kirpan to school.

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