{"id":174602,"date":"2022-03-16T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=174602"},"modified":"2022-03-16T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:46:40","slug":"hijab-not-an-essential-practice-of-islam-rules-karnataka-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hijab-not-an-essential-practice-of-islam-rules-karnataka-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijab not an essential practice of Islam, rules Karnataka High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karnataka High Court has pronounced its verdict on the petitions related to the row over wearing hijab in educational institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What were the issues before the Karnataka High Court? <\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The questions before the High Court were:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Whether the wearing of the hijab is essential religious practice under Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Whether the prescription of school uniforms is violative of fundamental rights and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Whether the Karnataka government order (which barred students from wearing clothing that could &#8216;disturb the peace, harmony and law and order), apart from being incompetent and manifestly arbitrary, violates Articles 14 and 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What was the Court verdict on these issues?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-174604 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-16-at-11.24.24-AM.png?resize=544%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-16-at-11.24.24-AM.png?w=977&amp;ssl=1 977w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-16-at-11.24.24-AM.png?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-16-at-11.24.24-AM.png?resize=768%2C571&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Wearing of a hijab (headscarf) by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practices in the Islamic faith, and it is not protected under the right to freedom of religion <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the prescription of school uniforms does not violate either the right to freedom of speech and expression under Article 19(1) (a) or the right to privacy under Article 21 of the Constitution. Moreover.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The restriction against wearing hijab in educational institutions is only a reasonable restriction constitutionally permissible, which the students cannot object to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the court upheld the legality of the Karnataka Government\u2019s order prescribing the wearing of uniforms in schools and pre-university colleges under provisions of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article <b>\u201cHijab not an essential practice of Islam, rules Karnataka High Court\u201d<\/b> published in <b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>16th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Karnataka High Court has pronounced its verdict on the petitions related to the row over wearing hijab in educational institutions. What were the issues before the Karnataka High Court? The questions before the High Court were: \u2013 Whether the wearing of the hijab is essential religious practice under Islam. \u2013 Whether&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hijab-not-an-essential-practice-of-islam-rules-karnataka-high-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hijab not an essential practice of Islam, rules Karnataka High Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-174602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939631},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}