Hijab Row Live Updates: 3-Judge Bench At Karnataka High Court Starts Hearing On Hijab Issue

Hijab Row Live Updates: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday referred the case to a larger bench in view of "the enormity of questions of importance which were debated".

A three-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court, headed by the Chief Justice of the state, starts hearing a case to decide if schools and colleges can order students to not wear the hijab in classrooms. 

The High Court on Wednesday referred the case to a larger bench in view of "the enormity of questions of importance which were debated".

"These matters give rise to certain constitutional questions of seminal importance in view of certain aspects of personal law," the judge hearing the case had said while referring it to a panel of judges to be led by the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court Ritu Raj Awasthi.

The case had been filed by a group of Muslim girls studying in government colleges in the Udupi district against a ban on wearing hijabs in classrooms.