Bangalore: The High Court clarified on Wednesday that there is a temporary ban on the religious attire for students an not for teachers. The hijab row is an ongoing controversy being heard by the court.
Earlier this Karnataka High Court had temporarily banned religious clothes, as the controversy over Muslim students wearing hijabs in classrooms spread across the state and led to a case.
Teachers and students were not allowed to enter schools and colleges for wearing the hijab in many parts of the state since then.
Earlier Chandini, who has been working as a guest lecturer in a private college, teaching English for the past three years, said the principal summoned her and told her they had received orders that no one should take class wearing hijab or displaying any religious identity. Amid this, she had resigned. However, the college management had refused the charge and has said that there was no such issue.
On Wednesday the Advocate representing one of the student petitioners, stated that teachers too were being stopped at the gates, Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi clarified that its order applied only to students.
The High Court on February 10 had stated in its interim order that it was restraining students regardless of religion from wearing saffron shawls or the hijab.
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