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The Silence That Wasn't a Right: What the Hijab Ruling Actually Tested

The ruling, delivered on August 21 in Sukaina Rizvi v. State of U.P., is the latest in a string of High Court decisions applying the essential religious practice test to hijab claims in schools and comes as the underlying constitutional question is still unresolved at the Supreme Court, four years after its 2022 split verdict.