Digital Desk: A student petitioner's counsel, Ravivarma Kumar, briefed the Karnataka High Court that Muslim women students are being picked out and kept out of class solely because of their religion. This declaration came on Wednesday.
Senior advocate Ravivarma Kumar is representing a student petitioner in the case, and the Karnataka High Court bench of Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit, and Justice JM Khazi is continuing to hear submissions from petitioners on whether wearing hijab is a fundamental right and whether it is an essential religious practice.
The petitioners challenging the ban on hijab in Karnataka schools contended in court why hijab is being singled out and that Muslim children are compelled to pick between faith and education.
"Hindu girls wearing bangles and Christian girls wearing crosses are not sent out," the petitioners stated. What about wearing a ghoonghat, a turban, or a cross? The petitioners hovered the court with their appeal. The hearing has been delayed until Thursday.
The students' lawyer further stated that "no other religious symbol is considered in the government Order," claiming that discrimination against Muslim girls is solely based on religion.
Karnataka has been embroiled in a hijab debate for over a month. A handful of schools and universities have refused to admit Muslim girls who wear headscarves.
Several pre-university colleges in Karnataka were in chaos on Wednesday after reopening after being closed for a week due to the Hijab issue, as Burqa-clad Muslim students were not let in.
Last week, the High Court issued an interim ruling banning students from wearing saffron shawls, scarves, hijab, or any religious flag in the classroom, pending the answer of all applications linking to the hijab debate.
"If a Sikh in a turban can serve in the Army, why can't a youth in a hijab be permitted in a classroom?" Kumar commented as he was wrapping up his submissions. Kumar sought the High Court to overturn a Karnataka government order requiring uniforms prohibiting hijab wear.
In addition, he asked the court to take judicial notice of the actuality that students are being held out of class and denied an education, appropriating that this is draconian and "doomsday" for their academic careers.
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