Come March 15, the full Bench of Karnataka High Court will deliver the all-important judgement on the matter related to wearing of Hijab in educational institutions by Muslim girls.
The Bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice J.M. Khazi will deliver the verdict tomorrow at 10:30 am.
Muslim women students had moved the High Court against the ban on wearing Hijab by certain Karnataka colleges.
Hearing on the matter had lasted for 11 days, before the Court reserved its verdict on February 25.
On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi had attended a press conference held the by Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town, protesting against the college authorities denying them entry into classrooms wearing hijab.
This was four days after they requested the Principal to allow them to wear hijab in classes. Till then, the students used to wear the headscarf to the campus, but entered the classroom after removing it, College Principal Rudre Gowda had said.
“The institution did not have any rule on hijab-wearing since no one used to wear it to the classroom in the last 35 years. The students who came with the demand, had the backing of outside forces,” Gowda had said.
The Karnataka government submitted details of CFI in the High Court. PU College, which has become the epicentre of hijab controversy in the state, on Monday told the High Court that CFI was a radical organisation that was spearheading the row.
Counsel for the PU College, Senior Advocate S.S. Naganand, said that the uniform was made compulsory by the college in 2004 and there had been no issue until the CFI met some students, who wanted to wear hijab to college.
The state government on Thursday informed the High Court that a first information report (FIR) has been registered against the members of CFI, who had allegedly threatened some teachers in the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi district.