Bangalore: The High Court is likely to give its verdict on the Karnataka hijab dispute today. A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of Karnataka will pronounce an interim order on the issue at 10.30 am on the wearing of hijab by Muslim girls in schools and colleges. A petition was filed by the Udupi girls in the Karnataka High Court. On February 9, a bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khaji was constituted. 

The girls had filed a petition, demanding that they should be allowed to wear the hijab even inside the classroom as it was part of their faith. The hijab controversy in Karnataka began in January. Here, in a government college in Udupi, suddenly six Muslim girl students wearing hijabs reached the college. The college administration had forbidden the girl students to wear hijab inside the classroom, but they did not agree. The girls then held a press conference and lodged a protest against the college administration. It was reported that a few days ago, the controversial organisation Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) had a conversation with the girl students, after which these girls suddenly started demanding to wear hijab in the classroom. 

The controversy over the hijab was created all over the country from Karnataka to the whole country. While everything was going well so far and girl students were coming to school in uniform, after this controversy, Muslim girls in many parts of the country suddenly started demanding to wear the hijab. There were demonstrations in support and protest against the hijab in schools. Even after the matter was in the High Court, there were demonstrations in support of the hijab. Now that the court is about to pronounce its verdict on the matter today, Section 144 has been imposed in several districts of Karnataka in view of the possibility of violence.

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