Pinnacle court to look at pleas against Karnataka High Court hijab ruling after the Holi break

17-03-2022

The Top court denied from keeping a date to listing a bunch of pleas against the Karnataka HC’s ruling that wearing of hijab by female Muslims doesn’t form a part of necessary religious practice in Islam.

The Bench headed by CJI NV Ramana, didn’t mention any date for looking at this matter after senior counsel Sanjay Hegde and Devadatt Kamat requested the court for urgent hearing of this case.

“Give us little duration … we are gonna look at it after the Holi festival holidays,” CJI responded to Hegde. 

The apex court is going to be closed for Holi for 3 days starting from today, and will again be open on 21st March.

At the present moment, Hegde requested if the court would consider hearing out on March 21, adding the examinations are gonna begin soon and the suffering students have to sit for them.

But Chief Justice of India Ramana told: “Mr Hegde, give little duration. We're gonna look at the matter. We will post the case”.

Two days before, a full bench of the Karnataka high court delivered a judgement that wearing of hijab isn’t mandatory in Islam while allowing the ban on the head dress brought by the Karnataka state government in educational institutions through a 5th February government order in Karnataka which became massive topic and led to protests and counter-protests across the Karnataka and in the different other cities across the nation.

Minutes after, one of the petitioners, Niba Naaz, made an appeal in the top court, informing that the high court has erred in making a disturbance in freedom of religion and freedom of conscience wherein the court has inferred that those who practice a religion can’t have the right to conscience.

Aishat Shifa, another student filed an appeal against the Karnataka High Court order in the present case.