CHENNAI/BENGALURU: Tamil Nadu police arrested two men on Saturday on the charge of issuing death threats to Karnataka high court judges who delivered the ‘hijab verdict‘ on March 15 that upheld a ban on students wearing the Islamic headscarf in class.
Kovai Rahmathullah was arrested in Tirunelveli, while S Jamal Mohammed Usmani, 44, was taken into custody in Thanjavur.
A three-judge bench of Karnataka HC held in its verdict that hijab is not an essential practice of Islam and exclusion of the headscarf comes under reasonable restriction. The court also upheld a February 5 Karnataka government order asking students to follow the uniform mandated by educational institutions.
Several religious minority community outfits have been protesting across Tamil Nadu against the Karnataka HC’s judgment. A video clip of one such protest meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai on Thursday went viral on social media two days later. It shows Tamil Nadu Tawheed Jamath (TNTJ) auditing committee member Kovai Rahmathullah purportedly saying that a judge who gave a ‘wrong’ verdict was killed during his morning walk in Jharkhand.
“There are some emotional people in our community,” he said in a veiled threat to the judges. “If something happens to them (Karnataka HC judges), BJP is waiting for an opportunity to blame us.”
Police registered cases against two more people, TNTJ Madurai district president Habibullah and vice president Asan Badshah, who had organised the meeting.
In Thanjavur, police arrested TNTJ headquarters speaker S Jamal Mohammed Usmani on Friday and booked the outfit’s Thanjavur district leader Rajik Mohammed for making derogatory remarks against Karnataka HC judges, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
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CHENNAI/BENGALURU: Tamil Nadu police arrested two men on Saturday on the charge of issuing death threats to Karnataka high court judges who delivered the ‘hijab verdict’ on March 15 that upheld a ban on students wearing the Islamic headscarf in class. Kovai Rahmathullah was arrested in Tirunelveli, while S Jamal Mohammed Usmani, 44, was taken into custody in Thanjavur. A three-judge bench of Karnataka HC held in its verdict that hijab is not an essential practice of Islam and exclusion of the headscarf comes under reasonable restriction. The court also upheld a February 5 Karnataka government order asking students to follow the uniform mandated by educational institutions. Several religious minority community outfits have been protesting across Tamil Nadu against the Karnataka HC’s judgment. A video clip of one such protest meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai on Thursday went viral on social media two days later. It shows Tamil Nadu Tawheed Jamath (TNTJ) auditing committee member Kovai Rahmathullah purportedly saying that a judge who gave a ‘wrong’ verdict was killed during his morning walk in Jharkhand. “There are some emotional people in our community,” he said in a veiled threat to the judges. “If something happens to them (Karnataka HC judges), BJP is waiting for an opportunity to blame us.” Police registered cases against two more people, TNTJ Madurai district president Habibullah and vice president Asan Badshah, who had organised the meeting. In Thanjavur, police arrested TNTJ headquarters speaker S Jamal Mohammed Usmani on Friday and booked the outfit’s Thanjavur district leader Rajik Mohammed for making derogatory remarks against Karnataka HC judges, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA