New Delhi: The Karnataka High Court released an interim order Friday restraining students from wearing hijab or any religious attire that are not prescribed under the ‘dress code/uniform’ of colleges in the state.
“Pending consideration of all these petitions, we restrain all the students regardless of their religion or faith from wearing saffron shawls (Bhagwa), scarfs, hijab, religious flags or the like within the classroom, until further orders,” the seven-page order noted.
“We make it clear that this order is confined to such of the institutions wherein the College Development Committees have prescribed the student dress code/uniform,” it stated.
The high court also asked the state government to “reopen the educational institutions and allow students to return to the classes at the earliest.”
The order, issued by a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, will be in force till petitions challenging colleges’ ban on the wearing hijabs or headscarves by Muslim girl students in classrooms is decided by the bench.
Read the full order of the Karnataka High Court order here:
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