Hijab Ban In College: Supreme Court's Massive Verdict!

The forgotten sensation created by the Hijab ban in educational institutions is back in the news when a popular educational institution announced a circular on this. Earlier Karnataka saw intense protests with this and the protests spread to other states too to stand in solidarity with the students.

An educational institute earlier said that students should not wear burqas, hijabs, or niqabs in the campuses. A few students challenged this decision in the High Court. However, they did not get the required verdict and they knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court.

The Apex Court gave a sensational verdict on this and said that it's the students' decision to select what they can wear. During the arguments, the bench of the Supreme Court also asked what message this would send as they were imposed restrictions on the dress.

As the College said that the students cannot wear Hijab or other dresses, the bench compromising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and PV Sanjay Kumar reportedly asked why there were no restrictions on Bindi or Tilak.

Whenever the issue of the restrictions on women’s dress pop up the focus goes on to the argument of what about students from other religions. We have seen this in the case of Karnataka. When the protests were going on a few students wore saffron shawls in a bid to protest.

Now the same paint was reportedly raised by the Supreme Court during the arguments. Expressing dissatisfaction over the restrictions on Muslim students as far as the dress is concerned, the bench asked why the College did not talk about students wearing Tilak or Bindi.

Every time the dress code row pops up it manages to create a sensation in the country. The same happened this time too as the Supreme Court said that the students can decide what they can wear.