Whereas most lady college students who have been on the forefront of the agitation in favour of hijab in Karnataka academic establishments, and had challenged its ban in court docket, didn’t wish to touch upon Supreme Court docket cut up verdict on the matter, one of many petitioners welcomed it, stating that the judgment had “upheld the rights of sufferer women”.
The petitioner, Aliya Assadi, who can also be a scholar of Authorities PU School, Udupi, tweeted late Thursday night, “…Hon’ble Justice Dhulia’s assertion has additional strengthen(ed) our hope in truthful judgement and continued constitutional worth at the very least in minuscule. 1000’s of hijabi college students are ready to renew their training.”
Within the cut up verdict, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia held that there shall be no restriction on carrying of hijab anyplace in colleges and faculties of the state.
“The scholar petitioners have determined to not speak in regards to the verdict,” mentioned Hussain Kodeibengre, an activist who provided help to the ladies in the course of the agitation, as not one of the women could possibly be reached for a remark.
State Literacy and Faculty Training Minister B C Nagesh mentioned he had “anticipated a greater judgment”. Each Nagesh and Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat, nevertheless, maintained that the apex court docket had not struck off the Karnataka HC verdict, which, whereas upholding the ban, had declared that hijab was not a vital non secular observe in Islam.
“We is not going to enable any non secular observe in faculties as per provisions of Karnataka Training Act,” Nagesh mentioned. He mentioned the state authorities is hopeful {that a} bigger SC bench, to which the matter shall be referred now, may also uphold the ban.
Ayesha Imtiaz, a closing 12 months scholar who dropped out of MGM School following the row, mentioned she was unimpressed. “I used to be not anticipating the choice to be totally different from that of Karnataka Excessive Court docket,” she mentioned. “Furthermore, any choice now could be ineffective. If a call had come earlier, it might have been useful to college students.”
Ayisha Afra, a former scholar of College School of Mangalore, who acquired herself transferred, nevertheless, mentioned the cut up verdict is an indication of hope. “Till now we didn’t have the help of the judiciary,” she mentioned. “The SC verdict has given us some hope.”
Mangalore College V-C, P Subrahmanya Yadapadithaya, referred to as the decision a stalemate and “nothing however indecisive”. Yadapadithaya mentioned the highest court docket ought to fast-track the case “earlier than political parts additional exploit the controversy”.
BJP nationwide basic secretary and senior get together chief from Karnataka, C T Ravi, mentioned it might not be applicable for him to touch upon the cut up verdict. However, he mentioned, “Uniform in colleges is supposed to advertise uniformity amongst college students. I imagine that separatism is promoted within the garb of points like promotion of burqa or hijab. This mindset was the rationale behind India’s Partition. This separatism progressively morphs into extremism, which generally is a supply of terrorism,” he mentioned.