Stopped Over Hijab, 2 Karnataka Students Refuse To Take Exams

Shivamogga, Karnataka:

Controversy over the banning of hijabs in Karnataka faculties continued Tuesday after it emerged that college students at faculties in Udupi and Shivamogga district couldn’t write their exams the day earlier than as a result of they have been refused permission to take action whereas carrying a hijab, or headband.

These not allowed to take action included two college students from a state-run faculty in Udupi, and one guardian advised NDTV the college threatened the lady with police motion if she refused to take away the hijab.

“This (banning of hijabs) was by no means there earlier than. Our kids have been made to sit down in separate rooms. Yesterday, the lecturers shouted on the kids… They (the college) had by no means achieved this earlier than,” the guardian, whose little one is a Class 6 scholar of a state government-run faculty in Udupi, stated.

“College stated ‘these in hijab sit exterior, these with out attend lessons’,” the guardian alleged. A district official, nonetheless, advised information company ANI college students carrying hijabs weren’t made to sit down individually.

“Our kids wish to put on the hijab they usually need an schooling. Hindu college students put on vermilion… Christian college students put on a rosary (so) what’s fallacious if our youngsters put on the hijab?” the guardian requested.

One other guardian advised NDTV their little one – a scholar of Class 9 in the identical faculty – had worn a hijab for the previous three years, and that no grievance had been raised by anybody in that point.

“My daughter was carrying the hijab at school. She was requested to take away it and attend the each day prayer. After the cops threatened her, she was compelled to take away the hijab,” the guardian stated.

One other guardian additionally alleged threatening behaviour by faculty authorities; “… lecturers stated they’d be despatched to the cops for not abiding by the principles, in order that they eliminated the headscarf and went.”

“I can’t take away the hijab. I used to attend faculty earlier with the hijab. The college administration requested us to both take away the hijab or go away the place. They didn’t permit us to seem for exams carrying hijab,” Hina, one of many college students who did not take the examination, advised ANI.

Different dad and mom have been quoted by ANI as saying they’d not ship their kids to high school solely after the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom, which is listening to six college students’ petition towards the ban, guidelines on the difficulty.

In the meantime, some college students of a college in Kodagu district staged a protest towards the hijab ban.

Karnataka faculties – shut for per week over the hijab row – re-opened (as much as Class 9) on Monday to disturbing scenes of younger women being compelled to “take away that (hijabs)” earlier than attending lessons.

Visuals additionally confirmed lecturers being compelled to take away burqas in full view of busy public roads.

College students barred from carrying the hijab have argued there is no such thing as a regulation prohibiting them from doing so, and the suitable to take action is protected underneath spiritual freedoms granted by the Structure.

The row began final month after college students at a Udupi school refused to ditch the hijab regardless of orders from lecturers. Six of them then went to the Excessive Courtroom, which continues its listening to as we speak.

Since then it has snowballed into a big matter, with the Supreme Courtroom additionally approached.

Nonetheless, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana stated: “We’ll intrude solely at an applicable time.”

With enter from ANI