Exams have nothing to do with Hijab; SC refuses urgent hearing of pleas challenging K'taka HC order on Hijab

Bengaluru, Mar 24: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to accord urgent hearing of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court order in connection with the Hijab case saying exams have nothing to do with Hijab.

 

 

On Thursday, the Supreme Court declined to give any specific date for the hearing of the hijab pleas challenging the Karnataka high court order.

 

"This has nothing to do with exams. Don't sensationalise the issue," Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana said while replying to senior advocate Devadutt Kamat, who was appearing for the petitioners.

 

 

 

Earlier, the top court had refused to hear the appeal urgently and had posted the matter after the Holi break.

 

On March 15, the Karnataka High Court had upheld a government order (GO) that empowered college development committees of government colleges in the state to ban all religious attires inside the college premises and mandate uniform dress codes.

 

A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justices Krishna S Dixit and JM Khazi had held that the hijab was not an essential religious practice and hence the constitutional articles that grant religious freedom cannot be used to violate the uniform dress code rules mandated by respective educational institutions.

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