Karnataka: HC hijab ruling today, Sec 144 in Bengaluru, parts of state

With the Karnataka High Court regulated to say its verdict on the hijab problem on Tuesday morning, the training order in Section 144 from the criminal procedure code was applied in several parts of Karnataka, including Bengaluru.

In Bengaluru, Police Commissioner Kamal Pant issued orders that prohibit all meetings, protests and celebrations in public places from 15 to 21 March. High Court officials held a meeting with a senior police officer on Monday night.

In Udupi – where part of a girl in pre-university college first started protests in January this year that we want to wear hijab in their classrooms – and Dakshina Kannada, the district government has stated holidays for all schools and colleges on Tuesday.

In the temporary order on February 10, the bench has said that “waiting for consideration of all these petitions, we hold all students regardless of their religion or faith of wearing a turmeric scarf, (Bhagwa) scarf, headscarf, religious flag or the like, in the classroom, Further orders. “That said the order” is limited to such institutions where the college development committee has prescribed a dress code / student uniform. “

During the trial, which began on February 10, the applicant claimed the right to wear a hijab in the classroom as part of religious freedom and freedom of expression, while opposing the order of February 5 Karnataka Department showed that the hijab could be prohibited. .

Advocate Karnataka General said that the government’s order was harmless and did not direct the prohibition of religious clothing but allowed it to be open to institutions. Ag, however, recognizes that certain parts of the order may not be necessary. The state government also said that wearing a headscarf is not an important religious practice.

Full bench was formed after Justice Dixit, who initially heard this problem as a single judge, referred him to a larger bench.

Apart from the high court order on Tuesday, this problem is expected to go to the Supreme Court. On February 11, the Supreme Court has refused to provide an urgent list to appeal against the Tanganan Temporary Tanganan, and asked the applicant not to “spread” the “greater level” controversy.

“I don’t want to express anything. Don’t spread these things to a bigger level … We also know what happens there in the state also in the hearing too. And you also have to think about whether it is appropriate to carry things It was to Delhi, the national level and all of that, “Head of India’s Justice N V Ramana told Senior Advocates Devadatt Kamat, who represented students from Udupi.

When Kamat urged the court to take the problem since it involves a legal problem that must be examined, CJI says: “Definitely, we will check. Certainly, if something is wrong, we will definitely protect. We must protect the constitutional rights of everyone. … let’s see. At the right time, surely we will interfere. Let’s see when we must. “

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