Saturday, April 27, 2024

Topic: Constitution

Hijab ban: Karnataka student moves High Court

Days after Government PU College in Udupi stopped female Muslim students from attending classes on the ground that they wear a hijab, a writ petition has been filed in the Karnataka High Court by a Muslim girl student, seeking a declaration that wearing a hijab is a Fundamental Right guaranteed under Article 14 and 25 of the Constitution of India and is an essential practise of Islam.

Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui’s arrest decried as ‘attack on constitutional right’

Parliamentarians, MLAs, community leaders, and activists have said that the recent arrest of Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the veteran Muslim leader's constitutional rights at every stage.

UP: Arrests of Muslim scholars violate their constitutional rights, alleges Muslim body

All India Da'wah Centres Association has said that the recent arrests of two Muslim scholars Mohammad Umar Gautam and Mufti Quazi Jahangeer Quasmi by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh under draconian anti-conversion law, violated the duo's constitutional rights at every stage.

Cow vigilantes and socio-legal protection – a detestable saga of country

Repeat a lie so often and it becomes the truth of the day, and the truth is not debatable. The overarching narrative of ‘narrative-making’...

“Rebirth” Chile votes to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution

A huge majority of Chileans, on Sunday, voted to rewrite the country’s Pinochet-era constitution which enabled four decades of social and economic inequality for...

Incongruities in the Constitution

There must be some errors because of which the Constitutional texts have failed to replicate in spirit. As Benjamin Franklin said that Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are, there is a clamant need for all the sections of the society to come forward and raise their voices against such incongruities in the Constitution.