The petitioners in the hijab case have told the Karnataka High Court that Muslim girls are suffering because of the restriction on the headscarf. “I request the court to pass an order allowing girls to wear hijab on Friday, which is Jumma day for the Muslim, and during the holy month of Ramzan,” counsel Vinod Kulkarni, appearing on behalf of the Muslim girls, said before the full bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna S Dixit.

Kulkarni siad there was a “mass hysteria” over the issue. He said hijab was “not against health or morality”.  He said banning hijab amounted to banning the holy Quran. On January 1, six girl students of a college in Udupi attended a press conference protesting against the college denying them entry into the classroom by wearing Hijab.