‘Hijab not must in Islam’: Bombay HC upholds ban in college, says it’s in students’ interest

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/111297819.cms


The Bombay high court on Wednesday upheld the ban by a Chembur college on students wearing burqa, hijab or niqab on the campus…

“The objective behind prescribing the dress code is evident…the intention is a student’s religion ought not to be revealed. It is in the larger academic interest of the students, for the administration and discipline of the college that this objective is achieved,” said Justices A S Chandurkar and Rajesh Patil.

They dismissed a plea by nine science students of N G Acharya and D K Marathe College calling the ban arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of their fundamental rights to expression under Article 19 (1) (a) and religion under Article 25.

They agreed with a Karnataka HC ruling that donning hijab or niqab was not an essential practice of girls professing Islam.

The petition also stated that their rights to choice and privacy were affected by the dress code and donning hijab and niqab was an essential religious practice. Senior advocate Anil Anturkar, for the college, had cited Karnataka HC full bench’s judgment in a similar case that donning hijab or niqab was not an essential practice of girls professing Islam.…

 

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Quran 33:59
O prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their veils close around them. That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not molested. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.