Girl students can wear churidar with duppatta : Madras H.C.

It is held by Madras High Court  that girl students can wear churidar with duppatta while attending classes.

Disposing off a writ petition, Justice K Venkatraman said the girl students could wear a sari or churidhar according to their convenience and the management or the Principal of the institution should not compel them to wear only a sari.

A homeopathy teaching hospital in suburban Porur affiliated to Dr MGR Medical University had been insisting that the churidhar dress was indecent. The institution decreed that its women doctors and house surgeons should wear only a sari and not the undignified churidhar.

Appearing for the petitioner, advocate Arulmozhi argued that the college management’s ban on the churidhar was in violation of article 21 and 14 of the Constitution.

She also submitted that her client, Kamalam, was not accustomed to wearing a sari. Besides, the college prospectus did not prescribe any dress code, she pointed out.

The judge disposed off the petition accordingly.

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