{"id":10561,"date":"2022-02-09T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamslivenews.com\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:47:21","slug":"hc-refers-hijab-case-to-larger-bench-protests-banned-near-institutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/2022\/02\/hc-refers-hijab-case-to-larger-bench-protests-banned-near-institutes\/","title":{"rendered":"HC refers hijab case to larger bench; protests banned near institutes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The high court refers the hijab case to the larger bench.\u00a0 Protests are banned near schools\/colleges for 2 weeks in Bengaluru.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday referred the hearing petitions challenging the hijab ban in certain colleges in the state to a larger bench. Meanwhile, the Karnataka police have banned protests, agitations, demonstrations, and gathering within the area of a 200-meter radius from the gate of schools, PU colleges, degree colleges or other similar educational institutions in Bengaluru city for two weeks.<\/div>\n
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The Hijab row had spread to more colleges in Karnataka on Tuesday and taken violent turn in many campuses in different parts of the State, with fierce protests for and against wearing of the headscarf by Muslim women students.\u00a0 As protests for and against the hijab intensified in different parts of Karnataka and turned violent in some places, the government had declared a holiday to all high schools and colleges in the state for three days.<\/div>\n
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The petitions were filed by some Muslim girls studying in Government Pre-University colleges in Udupi district against a ban on their entry into classrooms with their hijabs on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018In view of the enormity of questions of importance which were debated, the court is of the considered opinion that the Chief Justice should decide if a larger bench can be constituted in the subject matter,\u2019 Justice Dixit said.<\/div>\n
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\u2018The bench was also of the view that the interim prayers should also be placed before the larger bench that may be constituted by Chief Justice Awasthi exercising his discretion,\u2019 Justice Dixit noted in the order. The court, which heard petitions on the issue Tuesday, appealed to the students and people to maintain peace and tranquillity<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The state government Tuesday announced the\u00a0closure of high schools and colleges for the next three days\u00a0following tensions over the hijab row in different parts of the state.<\/p>\n

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In Maharashtra, AIMIM activists put up banners supporting ‘hijab’ in Maharashtra’s Beed city in support of ‘hijab’ for female Muslim students, and said the Indian Constitution gives the right to citizens to follow their religious culture.<\/div>\n
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The banners, conveying the message ‘pehle hijab fir kitaab’ (hijab first, book later), were displayed on Monday in Bashirganj and Karanja areas of Beed and were removed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Beed city police station’s inspector Ravi Sanap told PTI on Wednesday: “The situation in Beed is peaceful. We told them (the activists) that they had put up the banners without permission.<\/p>\n

They understood and removed the banners.” Protests for and against the ‘hijab’ had intensified in parts of neighbouring Karnataka and turned violent in some places on Tuesday, after the state government last week issued an order making uniforms prescribed by it or management of private institutions mandatory for its students in schools and pre-university colleges.
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Congress leader\u00a0Priyanka Gandhi<\/a> Vadra Wednesday said, “It is a woman\u2019s right to decide what she wants to wear, be it a bikini, a \u2018ghoonghat\u2019, or a \u2018hijab\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Whether it is a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans or a hijab, it is a woman\u2019s right to decide what she wants to wear. <\/p>\n

This right is GUARANTEED by the Indian constitution. Stop harassing women. #ladkihoonladsaktihoon<\/a><\/p>\n

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n