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Hijab row: Fb page admin, others arrested for derogatory remarks in opposition to HC judge

Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: PTI |Up as much as now: Mar 01, 2022, 07: 24 PM IST

A case has been registered in opposition to the administrator of a Fb page ‘Mangalore Muslims’ and one other one that had posted in opposition to one of many three judges of the Karnataka Excessive Court listening to the hijab case. The cyber crime division of the Bengaluru South division registered a case by itself in opposition to Ateeq Shariff from Bengaluru and the administrator of ‘Mangalore Muslims’ on February 23, which came to light fully no longer too lengthy ago.

The complaint says that Ateeq Shariff posted derogatory philosophize on February 12 in opposition to one of many judges questioning his credentials and integrity. Other folks who had cherished the put up in opposition to the judge would possibly furthermore incur the penal action, a police officer acknowledged. This incident comes shut on the heels of derogatory remarks in opposition to the identical judge by Kannada actor Chetan Kumar Ahimsa who used to be arrested and remanded to judicial custody.

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The three-judge bench particularly constituted to listen to the hijab case contains Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna S Dixit. The bench used to be fashioned after some Muslim ladies from the coastal district of Udupi, approached the court declaring that they had been denied entry to the college for carrying hijab.

The ladies also wanted a authorities present banning any cloth that would disturb peace, cohesion and public present to be quashed. The authorities present came following tension on the campuses of instructional establishments in completely different parts of Karnataka because it turned out to be hijab versus saffron scarves, thus main to communal tension. The HC has heard the case and an present is pending.

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