Lagatar24 Desk
New, Delhi, July 14: The Supreme Court rejected an urgent hearing for a PIL seeking direction from the Centre and states to implement a common dress code for staffers and students in registered educational institutions, to ensure equality, foster brotherhood, and advance national integration.
Attorney Ashwini Upadhyay urged the bench presided over by Chief Justice NV Ramana to schedule his PIL for hearing alongside the group of appeals brought against the Karnataka High Court ruling on the hijab controversy.
The petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court decision refusing to lift the ban on the hijab in state educational institutions will be listed next week, the bench, which also included justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli, decided after taking note of the arguments made by attorney Prashant Bhushan on Wednesday.
Upadhyay stated at the opening that this is a concern relating to the standard dress code.
“We have told you several times. Do not force me to repeat. Every day you file a PIL. How many matters have you filed? As if there is no regular litigation. I do not know, in every case you come and mention. It will come in due course. Wait…,” the bench said.
Notably, Nikhil Upadhyay, through attorneys Ashwini Upadhyay and Ashwani Dubey, filed a PIL earlier in February asking the Supreme Court to adopt a uniform clothing code at educational institutions in response to the hijab controversy.
The petition also asks that the Center be instructed to form a commission of judges or an expert panel to recommend ways to instil in students the concepts of “social and economic justice, socialism secularism and democracy and to promote brotherhood dignity unity and national cohesion.”
