Hijab Row | 'Will Hear It at Appropriate Time': SC on Plea for Urgent Hearing

"Constitutional rights are for everybody and this court will protect it," CJI Ramana added on Friday.

A Supreme Court (SC) bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana, on Friday, 11 February, said that the apex court would list the issue over hijab in Karnataka colleges at "the appropriate time," since the matter is being heard in the state high court at the moment.

"Constitutional rights are for everybody and this court will protect it. We will list at the appropriate time," Ramana told Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat, according to Bar and Bench.