Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing (Day 9)- LIVE UPDATES

Poovayya : In other words, can a person getting public education insist he or she has to wear wear religious attire, even assuming they have established that it is an essential religious practice?

Poovayya : If the State which maintains a College cannot impart any religious instruction there, can it be also read to mean there can be no religious manifestation in that institution?

Poovayya : Education in this country especially with the aid of government is purely a secular activity. Kindly see Article 28. No religion instruction shall be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds.

Poovayya : External manifestation of a religion, its professing and propagating is in forum external, which can be regulated under Article 25(2).

Poovayya : Please see Article 39 (f) which was interestingly brought in by the 42nd amendment which also amplified the word secularism in our constitution.

Poovayya: A right to wear a religious attire is amenable to Article 25 and not Article 19. It is not an Article 19 right.

Poovayya: I am not there because I am an MLA but there to look after the local requirements.

CJ: Whether this relief of quo-warranto can be granted?

Poovayya : How can it be? This seems to be an over night drafting of petition, with due respect, a petition with red herrings.

Poovayya : The CDC was constituted to provide welfare of the institution in tune with the local requirements. The Committees are not necessarily headed by MLAs of party in power.

Poovayya: The circular of govt of 2014 has not been challenged. It did not outsource education functions to any politician. This college is  funded by the Govt.

Sr Advocate Sajan Poovayya now makes submissions for a College Development Committee members (RATHUPATHI BHAT, MLA, and YASHPAL ANAND SURANA Vice Chairman CDC)