The Supreme Court, while hearing petitions challenging the hijab ban in educational institutions in Karnataka for the second day, on Wednesday, 7 September, asked if the "right to dress will include right to undress also?"
The court was responding to the contention raised by the petitioner's counsel that the right to dress has been recognised by the top court itself in a 2014 judgment as a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
"You can't take it to illogical ends. Right to dress will include right to undress also?" Justice Hemant Gupta said, as quoted by Live Law.