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16/10/22 07:37 AM IST

Hijab ban

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  • The Supreme Court recently delivered a split verdict on whether Muslim students should shed their hijabs at their school gates.
Justice H. Gupta upheld Karnataka’s prohibitive government order
  • Apparent symbols of religious belief: cannot be worn to secular schools maintained from State funds.
  • Secularity’ meant uniformity: manifested by parity among students in terms of uniformity.
  • Not amount to the denial of education: However, if the students were refusing to attend classes, it would not amount to the denial of education by the state.
Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia
  • Secularity: meant tolerance to “diversity”.
  • Wearing or not wearing a hijab to school: It is ultimately a matter of choice (Article 19(1)(a))
  • Asking the girls to take off their hijab:
  • It is an invasion of their privacy (Article 21)
  • It is an attack on their dignity
  • It is a denial to them of secular education.
Article 25
  • It does not speak of Essential Religious Practice.
  • If the belief is sincere, and it harms no one, there can be no justifiable reasons for banning the hijab in a classroom.
Source- PIB 

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