{"id":46168,"date":"2016-12-15T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=46168"},"modified":"2016-12-15T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:58:08","slug":"iaf-officers-cant-grow-beard-religious-basis-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/iaf-officers-cant-grow-beard-religious-basis-sc","title":{"rendered":"IAF officers can&#8217;t grow beard on religious basis: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44262\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-files-caveat-sc-issue-delhis-ut-status\/supreme-court-1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IAF officers can't grow beard on religious basis: SC\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IAF officers can&#8217;t grow beard on religious basis: SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today held that personnel working in the Indian Air Force cannot sport a beard based on religious grounds.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said that the Centre&#8217;s decision to prohibit personnel of a particular community from sporting beard does not infringe upon the fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p>The bench also comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao dismissed the pleas filed by two Muslim personnel of IAF who had challenged the dismissal of their pleas by the Delhi High Court.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court verdict came on two petitions filed separately by two personnel, Mohammed Zubair and Ansari Aaftab Ahmed, challenging the IAF authorities&#8217; &#8220;confidential&#8221; order dated February 24, 2003, prohibiting Muslim personnel from sporting a beard.<\/p>\n<p>Zubair in his petition had contended that the order was in contravention of fundamental fights of the citizen and also a government letter issued through the Ministry of Home on July 18,1990.<\/p>\n<p>The said letter of the home minister permitted the uniformed Muslim\/Sikh personnel to sport beard on religious grounds, provided prior permission was sought from the authorities, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had said that the IAF order was in the interest of cohesiveness in a combat force and it also has security implications.<\/p>\n<p>It had said that these policies are secular in character and have not been framed to govern the conduct of air force personnel of any particular religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has earlier told the court that IAF is undoubtedly a secular force having due regard for all religions and it is imperative that its personnel are guided by a sense of brotherhood without any distinction of caste, creed, colour or religion.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners had challenged the IAF order by way of a writ petition before the Delhi High Court and a single judge, citing certain Muslim religious texts, took the view that sporting beard was not compulsory and hence dismissed the plea.<\/p>\n<p>They then approached a division bench which had also concurred with the order of the single judge and dismissed the plea following which the appeals were filed in the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; 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