“Right To Dress Will Include Right To Undress?” Supreme Court Remarks At Hijab Row Hearing
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Hijab row began in January at government college in Udupi, Karnataka, and soon spread to other places.New Delhi: Justice Hemant Gupta of the Supreme Court today asked a lawyer arguing for the right to wear the hijab in education institutes: "You can't take it to illogical ends. Right to dress will include right to undress also?"The lawyer, Dev Datt Kamat, replied, "Nobody is undressing in a school."This was part of a longer exchange between the court and the lawyer, during which Justice Gupta also remarked: "Problem here is that one particular community is insisting on a headscarf (hijab) while all other communities are following the dress code. Students of other communities are not saying we want to wear this and that."When lawyer Kamat said many students wear rudraksh or cross a...