New Delhi: The Supreme Court today refused associate early hearing on pleas difficult the Karnataka High Court finding on the Karnataka government’s ban on hijabs within classrooms.
The petitioners had sought early listing of the difficulty citing future school examinations. The judge of India chided Advocate Devdutt Kamat, who was representing the petitioner Muslim student Aishat Shifa, asking him to not “sensationalize the issue”.
Mr. Kamat sought imperative listing of the matter saying students are being denied the choice to wear hijabs whereas showing for exams.
He said that exams are beginning on March 28 and the student would lose a year as authorities aren’t allowing entry with a hijab.
“This has nothing to try and do with exams. Don’t sensationalize the issue,” the CJI aforementioned whereas also refusing to entertain an intervention from the law officer Tushar Mehta as well.
On March 16, the Supreme Court had united to list after Holi the pleas difficult the Karnataka state supreme court order on hijab ban in academic institutions.
On March 15, the Karnataka state supreme court had upheld the state government’s ban on hijab in lecture rooms saying it was not an important religious practice of the monotheism faith.
The difficulty of hijab is generated and blown out of proportion by the powers that be, the state supreme court had said, adding that “some unseen hands are at work to engineer social unrest and disharmony”.