Anand, Apr 13 (PTI) Communal violence at Khambhat in Gujarat on Ram Navami was a conspiracy hatched by a sleeper module to achieve the dominance of a particular community in the town, police claimed on Wednesday.A senior citizen was killed and another injured in the violence which broke out after a Ram Navami procession came under attack on April 10.Anand district police said in a release that through the interrogation of eleven arrested accused and scrutiny of their mobile phone data including deleted chats and call recordings, it was found that they were involved in hatching a pre-planned conspiracy to establish the dominance of Muslim community in the area. Six accused, including a maulvi (religious leader) hatched the conspiracy as part of a need-to-know-based module/sleeper module, the release said.They planned to attack the procession and spread violence with the aim to teach the members of Hindu community a lesson to not take out any such procession in the future, claimed the police.Members of the core group organised meetings a few days in advance and took into confidence five others, made arrangements for hiding and escape, and the maulvi took it upon himself the task of providing financial help to the family members of the accused in case they got arrested and provide them legal support, police further claimed.

Gujarat: Violence in Khambhat was planned to `achieve dominance' of one community, say police

Communal

Gujarat

Sammya Mukhopadhyay

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

With Karnataka colleges on the boil over the hijab – a traditional headscarf commonly worn by Muslim women – the high court has stepped in, in a bid to calm tempers. The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ruled that wearing the hijab is not an essential religious practice. The court also dismissed various petitions challenging a ban on hijab in educational institutions. At the heart of the hijab row raging in India’s IT capital is a government order passed on February 5. The Karnataka government, using the powers vested in the executive under Section 133 (2) of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983, stated that the hijab was not going to be part of the uniform. ,The government order states the hijab is not an “essential religious practice” of the Muslims guaranteed under the Indian Constitution. The order saw things deteriorate very quickly after. Such were the fears of a communal conflagration, some schools and colleges had to stay shut. ,There were also reports of a school making hijab-wearing women students sit in a separate classroom without a teacher. ,Following the government order, a group of women approached the Karnataka high court. The court is in the process of hearing arguments and might have to come out with a ruling on whether the hijab is an essential religious practice not. Also Read | Bikini or hijab, woman’s right to decide: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Karnataka row,While judicial opinion on this varies, the state government cited the following two rulings to substantiate its February 5 order. ,Fatheema Tasneem vs State of Kerala,In 2018, two girls in Kerala aged 12 and 8 were denied entry into their Christian missionary school for wearing the hijab. The girls’ father, Mohammad Sunir, took the matter to court. A single-judge bench of the Kerala high court ruled in favour of the school, citing the school as a minority institution adding that “collective rights” of the school must be given priority over individual rights of students, according to an Indian Express report. ,Fathema Hussain Sayed vs Bharat Education Society ,In 2003, a minority student called upon her all-girls school to withdraw a ban on the hijab, challenging the school’s dress code. In this case, the Bombay High Court cited various verses of the Holy Quran to say the book does not prescribe wearing a hijab in front of other women. ,The petitioners in the Karnataka case argue that a ban on the hijab is a ban on an expression granted as a fundamental right under Article 19 (1) (a) of the Indian Constitution. They’ve also claimed that students quietly attending class while wearing a hijab cannot possibly disturb “public order”.

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 <li>Colleges in Karnataka turned a political flashpoint over the hijab</li>
 <li>A government order states the hijab is not an “essential religious practice”</li>
 <li>Karnataka HC said religious garments cannot be worn to school until the court comes out with an order</li>
</ul>

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Gujarat: Violence in Khambhat was planned to `achieve dominance' of one community, say police

Karnataka hijab row: What Indian courts have said on the headscarf