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All India Muslim Personal Law Board Moves Supreme Court Against Karnataka HC's Hijab Verdict

Lawstreet Journal 29 Mar 2022 8:29pm

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All India Muslim Personal Law Board has approached the Supreme Court against the Karnataka High Court's March 15 judgement, which upheld the ban on wearing of hijab in schools and colleges in the state, saying it was a direct discrimination against the Muslim girls.  

The private body, registered as a society, claimed the judgement ignored the doctrine of reasonable accommodation and unnecessarily went on to consider the principle of essential religious practice when questions of right to faith and others were involved in the matter.  It also contended as far as interpretation of scriptures in the holy Quran are concerned there is a consensus amongst religious scholars of all schools of thought namely, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafai and Hambli that practice of hijab is ‘wajib’ (mandatory), a set of obligations, which if not followed, he/she will commit “sin” or become a “sinner”. Wajib has been kept in the “First Degree” of obedience, it claimed. 

"The High Court has laid too much emphasis on propositions which results into discrimination, exclusion and overall deprivation of a class from the mainstream public education system, apart from the fact it seriously encroaches upon an individual’s sacrosanct religious belief," it claimed. 

The society, working for protection of Muslim personal laws, also pointed out, post 2017, in two judgments, namely K S Puttaswamy, (nine-judge on right to privacy) (2017) andKantaru Rajeevaru (five-judge) (Sabarimala Review, 2019), there has been a positive change in the legal regime for upholding individual rights against the State in relation to rights flowing from Article 21 as well… Continue Reading...


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