Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 28: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a number of pleas contesting the Karnataka High Court’s decision upholding the state government’s ban on hijabs in educational settings.
Tomorrow, the new Chief Justice of India UU Lalit’s first working day, the appeals will be heard by a bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia.
The petitions were previously brought up before a bench led by the former Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana, on a number of occasions for an urgent hearing, but the case was not scheduled for hearing.
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The order upholding the Karnataka government’s directive that required stringent implementation of schools’ and institutions’ uniform standards was challenged in appeals filed with the highest court.
The Karnataka High Court ruled in March that students could not object to the requirement of uniforms as a legitimate restriction, and it dismissed many petitions opposing the wearing of the hijab in educational facilities on the grounds that they lack validity.
Students shall not wear any religious apparel to class until the court makes the final judgement, according to an interim injunction that the High Court issued on February 10. On February 25, the Hijab case’s hearings came to an end, and the court had deferred judgement.
