Advocate Kamat on Thursday mentioned that the students have their exams on March 28 and if they are not allowed inside the classroom without hijab, they will lose a year.
Karnataka Hijab Row: SC declines to give date for early hearing
Karnataka Hijab Row: Supreme Court has refused to give any specific date for the hearing of the hijab pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court order. When senior advocate Devadatt Kamat pressed the Apex Court and said the urgency is because of the impending exams, Chief Justice NV Ramana said, 'Exams have nothing to do with the issue. Don't sensitize."
It must be noted that the Apex court had earlier refused to urgently hear the appeal and posted the matter after Holi break.
Karnataka Hijab Row: Details
The case was scheduled to be presented before the Chief Justice of India for urgent listing on Thursday. Advocate Kamat on Thursday mentioned that the students have their exams on March 28 and if they are not allowed inside the classroom without hijab, they will lose a year.
The Karnataka high court, in its recent ruling, has upheld the ban on religious clothes inside educational institutions, including hijab. The high court ruled that hijab is not an essential religious practice in Islam. The verdict has been challenged in the top court.
Meanwhile, the high court judges Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice Khazi M Jaibunnisa who passed the hijab verdict have been provided with Y category security after they complained of receiving death threats.
As per the reports, several students have skipped exams owing to the hijab ban. However, Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh said that no re-exams will be conducted for all those students who skipped exams as there is no such provision.
"Whatever the Court has said, we will abide by it. Being absent from exams will only be the prime factor and not the reason, whether it may be because of hijab row or ill-health or inability to attend or for not having studied. In the final exam- absent means absent- repeat exams cannot be held," the minister said.
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