Hyderabad:
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed the Allahabad Excessive Court docket ruling that rejected a Muslim lady’s petition looking for to put on a scarf in school.
Calling the ruling an “assault on Islam”, Owaisi mentioned it isn’t for judges to resolve what is important to Islam and what’s not.
“It’s our faith and we’ll resolve what is important. Who’re the judges to resolve? That is an assault on our faith,” Owaisi mentioned.
In a big ruling on August 21, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket clarified that no pupil has a proper to change the gown code prescribed by an academic establishment in accordance with private preferences. The courtroom dismissed the petition filed by a pupil looking for course to highschool authorities to allow the petitioner to put on a scarf along with the uniform prescribed by the varsity.
The petition was filed by a minor lady, a pupil of a personal college in Prayagraj. The lady has handed highschool and seeks admission to Class XI in the identical establishment.
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A two-judge bench comprising Justices JJ Munir and Indrajit Shukla rejected the argument that carrying a scarf is a vital Islamic follow.
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“Wherever this concern has arisen, the excessive courts have been unanimous in opinion that carrying a scarf is just not a vital a part of the Islamic religion for a lady to don, within the absence of which religion could be jeopardised,” the courtroom dominated.
Owaisi mentioned the Supreme Court docket is already listening to the matter of important spiritual practices in relation to Sabarimala. “When the Supreme Court docket is already seized of the matter, the Allahabad judges shouldn’t have dominated on the matter,” he mentioned.
“The Allahabad Excessive Court docket order is in opposition to Articles 19 and 25 of the Structure,” he added.
Supporting the lady’s demand to be allowed to put on a scarf as a matter of alternative and privateness, Owaisi mentioned, “She is carrying hijab on her head, not on her thoughts”.
He additional said that the ruling will hamper women’ schooling. “In UP, enrolment of Muslim women in secondary faculties is the bottom. They need to cease schooling of Muslim women.”
The courtroom had additional said that so long as a faculty’s uniform code is truthful, non-discriminatory, and applied to take care of institutional self-discipline and equality, the establishment retains full autonomy to implement its inside self-discipline and gown code.
Disagreeing with the ruling, Owaisi mentioned: “Uniformity is just not equality.”
