The Supreme Court today said it will set up a three-judge bench to hear a plea of Muslim girl students to sit for examinations in Karnataka government schools while wearing hijab.
The court had said last month that it would consider setting up a three-judge bench to adjudicate the case related to the ban on wearing of hijabs in Karnataka government schools.
Last year in March, the Karnataka high court dismissed the petitions filed by a section of Muslim students of the Government Pre-University Girls College in Karnataka s Udupi seeking permission to wear the hijab inside classrooms.
Karnataka hijab ban: A two-judge bench of the apex court had on October 13, last year delivered opposing verdicts in the hijab controversy, and urged the Chief Justice to constitute an appropriate bench to adjudicate the case that stemmed from a ban on wearing of Islamic head covering in Karnataka schools.