New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the petitioners not to mix the traditions of Muslim and Sikh religion while hearing a case related to the ban on hijab in Karnataka.

The court said that it is unreasonable to equate Muslim traditions with Sikhism as Sikhism is also enshrined in the culture of the country.

The apex court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court’s decision refusing to stay the state government’s decision on the ban on hijab in educational institutions.

The apex court said that the five kakars – case, kara, kangha, kachehra and kirpan – are fully established in Sikhism and have a unique identity. A bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia made the observations after the counsel appearing for the petitioners cited the example of Sikhism and turban in his arguments.

“We can’t compare tenets of Sikhism with hijab. The five ‘kakars’ are fully established.”

Referring to Article 25 of the Constitution, the supreme court said that it allows Sikhs to wear kirpans. This section allows freedom of conscience to practice business, tradition and any religion. ”

Don’t mix these traditions as they have been accepted for more than 100 years, the court said.

Advocate Nizam Pasha, appearing for one of the petitioners, argued that Article 25 does not mention the five kakars but only kirpan. To this, the bench said, “What are we saying, please don’t compare it (hijab) with Sikhism. Nobody is prohibiting you from wearing the hijab. The question is about wearing it in school,” the bench added.

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New Delhi: Seven teachers were suspended in Gadag, Karnataka for allowing girl students wearing Hijab to appear for the SSLC exams.

Incident occurred at CS Patil girls high school.

Invigilators allowed girls to enter students in the exam hall with head scarf, following this they were suspender.

Officials said that teachers had let girls to wear the hijab on Monday and found guilty in the inquiry.

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New Delhi: 10 Muslim girls have been booked by the Karnataka police for violating prohibitory orders and staging protest over Hijab ban outside a Girls Empress Govt PU College in Tumkur, Kartanka on February 17.

“Police have registered an FIR against at least 10 girls for violating prohibitory orders issued under Section 144 of CrPC by staging a protest against the hijab rule outside Girls Empress Govt PU College in Tumkur on Feb 17, under Sections 143, 145, 188 and 149 of IPC, ” news agency ANI Tweeted on Saturday.

The move came a day after Karnataka government told the High Court that hijab is not an essential religious practice in Islam and the court in its interim order has restrained students from wearing any religious attire in the education institutes till a final order has not been passed into the matter.

A controversy erupted after a group of Muslim students attended classes after wearing headscarves in a pre-university college in Udupi and they were asked to leave the campus. Later, the matter spread to different parts and Hindu students wore saffron mufflers in the classroom in a protest against hijab.

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