Karnataka Lessons 11, 12, Schools To Keep Shut Until Wednesday

The Karnataka Excessive Courtroom will resume listening to petitions on hijab ban on Monday

Bengaluru:

Faculties for Lessons 11 and 12 and schools will stay shut in Karnataka from Saturday until Wednesday amid the row over sporting Hijab by Muslim college students on campus. The Karnataka authorities as we speak introduced that lessons will stay shut because the excessive courtroom will proceed listening to petitions difficult the hijab ban on Monday.

Faculties are, nevertheless, open for college students until Class 10.

The protests that started final week in opposition to a hijab ban in a single government-run faculty in Udupi unfold to many different establishments the place women sporting hijabs weren’t allowed entry. As saffron scarf-wearing college students launched counter protests, violence at one faculty pressured the police to fireplace teargas to manage the flare-up.

The Supreme Courtroom as we speak rejected an pressing listening to on the hijab row, saying it “will intervene solely at an acceptable time.” A lady in Karnataka had approached the Supreme Courtroom on the matter.

The scholar in her attraction to the Supreme Courtroom stated sensible exams will begin on February 15 and “any interference on college students’ entry to academic establishments will impede their schooling”.

The safety forces additionally went on rounds in three cities in Karnataka as tensions simmer. The police went on flag marches in Udupi, Chitradurga and Doddaballapura.

The flag march to take care of legislation and order comes a day after the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom stated it could resume listening to petitions difficult the hijab restrictions on Monday. The excessive courtroom in its interim order as we speak stated no spiritual apparel, whether or not shawls or hijab, will probably be allowed inside academic establishments.

Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai has appealed to individuals to take care of peace and concord.