Udupi: One of the petitioners within the hijab case within the Karnataka High Court, Hazra Shifa, has alleged that “Sangh Parivar goons” on Monday night time attacked her brother and broken her property in Udupi.

In a sequence of tweets, she demanded {that a} case be filed towards the attackers.

“My brother was brutally attacked by a mob. Just because I continue to stand for My #Hijab which is MY RIGHT. Our property was ruined as well. Why?? Can’t I demand my right? Who will be their next victim? I demand action to be taken against the Sangh Parivar goons,” she tweeted.

According to Shifa, her 20-year-old brother — Saif — is admitted to Hitech Hospital, Udupi.

Masood Manna, who is thought to Shifa, claimed in a tweet {that a} mob of 150 individuals attacked Saif.

“He was a victim as his sister @hazra_shifa is still fighting for her rights, her #Hijab. Not only students but families’ lives are at stake as well. Stringent action must be taken!” Manna tweeted.

The full bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna S Dixit is listening to the case the place Muslim women and girls are demanding that they be allowed to be put on hijab in lecture rooms.

The bench comprising Karnataka Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice J M Khazi and Justice Krishna S Dixit was constituted to listen to the case towards the hijab ban.

On January 1, six woman college students of a faculty in Udupi attended a press convention held by the Campus Front of India (CFI) within the coastal city protesting towards the school authorities denying them entry into lecture rooms sporting hijab.

This was 4 days after they requested the principal permission to put on hijab in courses which was not allowed. Till then, college students used to put on the scarf to the campus, however entered the classroom after eradicating it, school principal Rudre Gowda had mentioned.

“The institution did not have any rule on hijab-wearing as such and since no one used to wear it to the classroom in the last 35 years. The students who came with the demand had the backing of outside forces,” Gowda had mentioned. 

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