The courtroom will resume listening to a plea by 6 college students who had first questioned the ban (File)
Bengaluru:
Karnataka colleges (as much as Class 10) re-opened in the present day amid controversy over the state barring Muslim college students from carrying a hijab throughout courses. Courses 11 and 12 are closed until Wednesday. Petitions in opposition to the ban are being heard by the Excessive Court docket.
Forward of in the present day’s courses, orders banning giant gatherings have been introduced in districts that witnessed tense stand-offs between college students protesting for the precise to put on the hijab and people opposed, who included individuals from right-wing outfits brandishing saffron shawls and scarves.
In Mangaluru, prohibitory orders beneath Part 144 are in place for 200 metres round all excessive colleges in metropolis limits. In Udupi district – the place the protests first started – assemblies of 5 or extra individuals close to colleges have been banned, as have gatherings like rallies or the shouting of slogans.
On Sunday, police in Shivamogga took out a flag march and banned gatherings on or round highschool premises. Final week a frenzied mob waving saffron scarves cheered and chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as one particular person climbed a pole in a neighborhood school to run up a saffron-coloured flag.
At 2.30 pm the Karnataka Excessive Court docket will resume listening to a plea by six college students who, in December, had first questioned the ban. Final week, in a contentious interim order, the courtroom dominated that colleges and schools may reopen however no non secular clothes, together with hijabs, can be allowed.
Asking college students and the general public to “keep peace”, the courtroom had mentioned: “Pending consideration of all petitions, we restrain all college students, no matter their faith or religion, from carrying saffron shawls, scarves, hijab, non secular flags or the like, throughout the classroom, till additional orders…”
The order was challenged within the Supreme Court docket – on grounds it violated college students’ constitutional rights – however Chief Justice NV Ramana solely mentioned: “We are going to intrude solely at an acceptable time.” The Chief Justice was unmoved regardless of being instructed the case had “far-reaching implications”.
Karnataka’s BJP authorities has been largely silent because it waits for a choice by the Excessive Court docket, however the protests have triggered livid political debates (with communal overtones) within the nation and been observed worldwide, with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and French footballer Paul Pogba amongst these to talk out in assist of the Muslim college students.
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Prohibitory orders beneath Part 144 of CrPC has been clamped round 200-metre radius of all of the excessive colleges throughout the metropolis police commissionerate limits from Monday until February 19.
The transfer is an element of a precautionary measure in view of the hijab controversy. The excessive colleges are reopening on Monday after the vacation declared by the state authorities.
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