The Karnataka government on Tuesday told the High Court that there is no restriction on wearing hijab in India with reasonable restrictions subject to institutional discipline and dismissed the charge that denial to wear the headscarf was a violation of Article 15 of the Constitution, which prohibits discrimination of every sort.
The HC said it wishes to dispose of the case this week itself and sought the cooperation of all the parties involved.

Countering the petitioner Muslim girls from Udupi district, who challenged the restriction on hijab inside the educational institutions, Karnataka Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi said, “The right to wear Hijab falls under Article 19(1)(A) and not Article 25. If one wishes to wear Hijab, then there is no restriction ‘subject to the institutional discipline’. The rights claimed under Article 19(1)(A) is related to Article 19(2) where the government places a reasonable restriction subjected to institutional restriction.”