Mumbai: The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday refused to intrude with the choice of a Mumbai faculty to ban hijab, burqa and niqab on its campus. A division bench of Justices AS Chandurkar and Rajesh Patil stated that it isn’t inclined to intrude within the choice of the school. Together with this, the court docket additionally dismissed the petition filed in opposition to the school by 9 woman college students.

Allow us to inform you that the scholars had approached the Excessive Courtroom earlier this month. Of their petition, the scholars had challenged the directive of NG Acharya of Chembur Trombay Training Society and DK Marathe Faculty, by which the school had applied a gown code. Beneath this, college students can not put on hijab, niqab, burqa, stole, cap and badge contained in the campus.

‘The ban is in opposition to basic rights’
The petitioners claimed that this directive is in opposition to their basic rights to comply with their faith, proper to privateness and proper to alternative. Within the petition, the motion of the school has been described as arbitrary, unfair, in opposition to the legislation and perverted.

Petitioner’s lawyer Altaf Khan introduced some verses of the Quran earlier than the Excessive Courtroom final week to assist his declare that carrying hijab is a vital a part of Islam. Khan stated that aside from the precise to comply with their faith, the petitioners have been additionally speaking about their proper to alternative and privateness whereas opposing the school’s choice.

‘Order not in opposition to Muslim neighborhood’

On the identical time, the school had claimed that the choice to ban hijab, niqab and burqa in its campus was solely a disciplinary motion for the uniform gown code and it was not in opposition to the Muslim neighborhood. Senior advocate Anil Anturkar, showing for the school administration, stated that the gown code is for college students of all religions and castes.

Khan stated that he (petitioner) initially requested the school administration and the principal to carry the ban on niqab, burqa and hijab and permit it within the classroom as a matter of alternative, respect and proper to privateness.

The petitioner ladies additionally raised their grievance in opposition to the discover earlier than the Vice Chancellor, Vice Chancellor of Mumbai College and College Grants Fee and requested them to intervene to take care of the spirit of offering training to all residents with none discrimination. Nonetheless, when the woman college students didn’t get any response, they filed a petition within the Excessive Courtroom.