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A lawyer on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to give an urgent hearing to an application seeking to allow girl students to appear in examinations in colleges in Karnataka wearing headscarf. Read further on Dynamite News:

The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has requested Chief Justice of India (CJI) UU Lalit that the Hijab issue be referred to a larger bench of a minimum of five judges including one Muslim judge in Supreme Court after split judgments on this issue by two judges today. Read more…

Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Hemant Gupta, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said no student was insisting on hijab till 2022.

It declared that the law has left "the affairs of the Sikh minority in Haryana to be managed by the Sikhs alone"

Bench says the key issue is whether State place curbs on rights of students in classrooms

The PIL argued that a dress code should be implemented to secure equality and promote fraternity and national integration.

It should not be viewed as a ‘simple case of discipline’, says petitioner

State should show ‘reasonable accommodation’ of Muslim students’ right to wear hijab to school, counsel for Aishat Shifa tells court

Senior advocate Rajeev Dhawan argues the students did not defy the dress code; they wanted to wear a hijab in addition to their uniform