Schools closed, protests banned ahead of Karnataka HC verdict on hijab row today | 10 points

A bench of the Karnataka Excessive Court docket is more likely to pronounce its verdict on the Hijab controversy on Tuesday. Forward of the decision within the Hijab row case, an order has been issued in Bengaluru prohibiting gatherings, agitations, protests, or celebrations of any sort in public locations within the metropolis for one week.

Here’s a 10-point cheatsheet of all information forward of the decision:

1. Bengaluru commissioner of Police Kamal Pant mentioned that each one forms of gatherings, agitations, protests, or celebrations in public locations are prohibited in Bengaluru for one week from March 15 to March 2.
2. Sector 144 was imposed in Shivamogga, Udupi, Kalaburagi, mentioned officers. All academic establishments within the districts will stay closed tomorrow. “In view of the Hijab row verdict tomorrow, the district administration has imposed Sec 144 efficient from 8 pm at the moment until 6 am on March 19. All academic establishments within the district will stay closed tomorrow,” mentioned Yeshwanth V Gurukar, DC Kalaburagi.
3. Dakshina Kannada DC ordered a vacation in all faculties & schools for tomorrow (Mar 15). Exterior exams will occur as per schedule however inside exams of all faculties & schools will likely be postponed: Dr. Rajendra KV, DC, Dakshina Kannada.
4. The case is searching for permission to permit Muslim ladies to attend courses in faculties and pre-university schools the place there’s a prescribed college uniform led to pressure on the campuses of academic establishments in Karnataka.
5. The total bench of the Excessive Court docket comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice J M Khazi was constituted on February 9 on a petition filed by ladies from Udupi who prayed that they need to be allowed to put on Hijab even contained in the classroom together with the college uniform because it was a part of their religion.
6. In accordance with the attorneys showing for the petitioner ladies from Udupi district, the matter pertaining to Hijab case has been listed for Tuesday as serial No. 1 and the court docket could spell out the operative a part of the decision from 10.30 am onwards.
7. On January 1, six woman college students of a school in Udupi attended a press convention held by the Campus Entrance of India (CFI) within the coastal city protesting towards the faculty authorities denying them entry into lecture rooms carrying headscarves. 
8. As the difficulty of Hijab versus saffron scarves unfold to a number of academic establishments in lots of elements of Karnataka, the state authorities had introduced holidays from February 9 to February 15 in all of the pre-university schools and from February 9 to February 16 in diploma and diploma schools.
9. The women then approached the Karnataka Excessive Court docket searching for aid and quashing the federal government order on February 5 restraining college students from carrying any material that would disturb, peace, concord, and public order. The total bench of the Excessive Court docket has been listening to the case on a day-to-day foundation since February 10.
10. In its interim order, the bench requested the state authorities to reopen the academic establishments, which had been hit by the agitation, and restrained college students from carrying Hijab and saffron scarves within the classroom until the ultimate order is delivered. 

(with inputs from ANI, PTI)

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