Challenging this order, a batch of petitions were filed by nine female students before the Bombay High Court.On hearing these batch of pleas, the HC’s two-judge bench, led by Justice AS Chandurkar and Justice Rajesh S Patil, had on June 26, refused to entertain.The bench said that the insistence on following the dress code is within the college premises and the petitioners’ freedom of choice and expression is not otherwise affected.Subsequently, these students moved the top court by filing an appeal before it challenging the HC’s order and seeking quashing of it. The petitioners had challenged the dress code on the ground that restrictions on hijab, nakab, burka etc. on the campus violate their fundamental rights.”Under the dress code, the dress of the students is expected to be formal and decent and should not reveal the religion of any student,” the plea said. Pointing out that the college was wrong in its order in trying to make a dress code, the plea of the students also said the dress code was arbitrary and discriminatory.”It infringes upon their right to choose their attire, their right to privacy, and their right to expression under Article 19(1)(a) and their right to freedom of religion under Article 25 of the Constitution,” it said.
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