Hijab Ban- Karnataka High Court Full Bench Hearing (Day 11)- LIVE UPDATES

CJ : We cannot go on presumptions. Have you tried to collect material that there are people behind the agitation? You have any material

Jha : One young boy Harsha was killed and I am informed CFI is involved in the brutal murder.

CJ : Investigation is pending. We cannot presume

Jha : An agitation of this magnitude cannot be orchestrated overnight. This cannot be turn out of blue. There are photographs showing the girls were not wearing hijab earlier. Suddenly petitions are filed one after another, senior lawyers across the country are engaged

Jha : Which are the organisations, PFI, Campus Front, SIO, Jamaat E Islami which has been funded by Saudi universities to Islamize India. If there is material showing involvement of these organizations, the answer is not difficult to fathom..

Jha : When we talk about foreign judgments, Malaysian court judgemet is not applicable.

CJ : Come to your first prayer. If you want to press that, argue that.

Jha : We are in India, in Bharatavarsha..

CJ : Mr.Jha, you have filed this petition for CBI/NIA probe into the agitation? Do you have any material showing extraneous elements, then we can consider. So far as religious issues, we have heard others.

Jha: Whether it is possible, feasible, what happened 1400 years ago should be applied in 2022. The Answer is NO. What is said..women should lower their gaze..is it possible..when we talk about dogmas it is not possible to literally follow.

Justice Dixit : This is an exclusively girls school. Where is the point?

Jha refers to a Bombay HC judgment on hijab - "there is no established practice of Muslim girl having to wear headscarf while studying in an all girls-schools. It is not obligatory for her to wear heardscarf in an exclusively girls school"

Justice Dixit : We are talking about uniforms in school. How these judgments are relevant?

CJ : You are on the importance on uniform?

Jha : Yes.

Jha says the Kerala HC decision was in a case by a lawyer who took exception to the colour black for advocates dress on the ground that it was the colour of black