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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 24
The petitioners in opposition to ban on hijab in academic establishments in Karnataka on Thursday insisted earlier than the state excessive court docket that their proper to put on hijab flowed from the Quran and it included each important and non-essential practices.
During the tenth day of listening to on petitions in opposition to ban on hijab in faculties/schools, a Bench led by Chief Justice RR Awasthi requested senior counsel Devadatt Kamat, “How can you insist on wearing hijab in an institution which has a uniform? What is this fundamental right you have?”
Kamat replied, “Before Your Lordships question me on where is my right, I would ask myself, where is the restriction, because 25(2) is very clear on what can be restricted…the right to wear hijab flows from the Quran.”
He stated Article 25(1) included important practices and non-essential practices. “It is a canopy of rights,” it stated.
The Bench indicated that it want to wind up the listening to on Friday and ship the decision rapidly.
At the very outset of the proceedings, Karnataka Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi knowledgeable the Bench that an FIR has been registered in opposition to members of the Campus Front of India (CFI) who allegedly threatened some lecturers within the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi district.
He additionally furnished particulars referring to the CFI in a sealed cowl to the Bench which had on Wednesday sought to learn about senior advocate SS Naganand’s submission about CFI members threatening some principals and lecturers.
On behalf of one of many petitioners, senior advocate AM Dar stated sporting hijab was necessary in Islam and merely as a result of a Muslim woman wore hijab public order received’t be disturbed.
“This is not a Hindu rashtra or an Islamic republic. It’s a democratic, sovereign, secular, republic where rule of law must prevail,” Dar contended.
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