Retd Justice Hemant Gupta had set aside the Karnataka High Court’s decision

Retd Justice Hemant Gupta while hearing the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court’s March 2022 order banning the wearing of hijab in schools and colleges. Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia had said that there would be no ban on wearing hijab anywhere in the schools and colleges of the state. Justice Gupta had said that allowing members of a community to wear their religious symbols in school-college would be ‘contrary to secularism’,