New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will constitute a bench soon for hearing appeals filed before it in connection with the Hijab row.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana said: "We will constitute a bench to hear the appeals in the Hijab row. I will constitute a bench. One of the judges aren't well. If judges would have been alright, the matter would have come for hearing.
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Senior lawyer, Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the petitioners, mentioned a plea before the top court bench challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgement upholding the ban of Hijab.
Arora mentioned that the high court judgement was passed in March, as such a date for hearing of the challenge the apex court was long awaited.
The Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice J M Khazi, in their judgement on March 15 held that wearing of hijab by women was not an essential religious practice of Islam.
The High Court dismissed the petitions filed by a group of Muslim girl students against PU government college for denying them entry while wearing Hijab. (with Agency inputs)
