The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned hearing on petitions challenging hijab ban in schools and colleges till tomorrow, news agency ANI reported.

During the hearing, advocate Dev Datt Kamat while appearing for the petitioners challenging ban argued that wearing headscarves is an essential practice of the Islamic faith.

Advocate Dev Datt Kamat argued that the Karnataka government order banning hijab was a non-application of mind.

"The government order is in the teeth of Article 25 and it is not legally sustainable," Kamat argued.

Advocate Kamat also argued that Muslim women allowed to wear headscarves in public.

The high court bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice last Thursday had restrained the students from wearing hijab or religious attire till further orders.

Schools up to tenth standard reopened across the state amid tight security due to the raging Hijab controversy.