{"id":222781,"date":"2022-03-15T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=222781"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:35:22","slug":"high-court-upholds-hijab-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/high-court-upholds-hijab-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court upholds hijab ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karnataka High court upheld a ban on wearing the hijab in classes in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are of the considered opinion that wearing of hijab by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practice,&#8221; Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi of the High Court of Karnataka said in the judgement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the government had the power to prescribe uniform guidelines, dismissing various petitions challenging the order<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ban last month by the southern state sparked protests by some Muslim students and parents, and counter-protests by Hindu students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the critics of the ban say it&#8217;s another way of marginalising a community that accounts for about 13% of Hindu-majority India&#8217;s 1.35 billion people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High court upheld a ban on wearing the hijab in classes in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority. We are of the considered opinion that wearing of hijab by Muslim women does not form a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[108180,32015],"class_list":["post-222781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-hijab-issue","tag-karnataka-high-court"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hijab.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}