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The Advocate General for Karnataka Prabhuling Navadgi informed a special bench consisting of CJ Awasthi, Justice Dixit & Khazi that a First Information Report (FIR) had been registered to investigate the alleged involvement of the Campus Front of India (CFI) in pushing the Hijab Controversy in Karnataka. Court was handed over a copy of it in a "sealed cover".

This happened after S.S. Naganand, Sr. Adv, appearing for the teachers told court yesterday that Campus Front of India (allegedly affiliated to the radical extremist ideologue organisation Popular Front of India) pressurised the college into permitting Hijab.

The court on hearing this, had asked the Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi if there are any intelligence reports on CFI instigating these protests, the AG informed the court that he will file a report in a sealed cover.

Naganand took the court through certain documents to show that the same petitioners who were before the court seeking directions of the court to wear Hijab had posed for pictures for obtaining Aadhar card without Hijab.

He further took the court through the resolutions of the school from 2004 to bring to the notice of the court that the college made uniforms compulsory in 2004, there have been no protest till now however these protests are now taking place with the instigation of CFI.

He said, “There is also information that some teachers are being threatened by this organisation. They were scared to lodge a complaint. A complaint has been lodged recently.”

According to news reports, a lecturer from the government PU college in Udupi where the Hijab row began had lodged a complaint against the Campus Front of India for being threatened.