Student Told to Remove Tilak From Forehead To Enter Karnataka College

Vijayapura (Karnataka):

Faculty authorities at Indi city prevented a person from getting into the premises on Friday for sporting a vermilion on his brow and requested him to take away it.

The lecturers stopped him on the gate asking him to erase the vermilion first to enter school. The scholar was instructed that the customary vermilion on the brow was additionally creating downside together with hijab and saffron scarves. This led to a severe verbal scuffle between the lecturers and the coed.

In view of the hijab row within the state, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket’s interim order and the state authorities’s order restricted using hijab and saffron scarves. The orders didn’t prohibit anybody from sporting vermilion on the brow.

There, nevertheless, was debate within the Excessive Court docket the place the counsels for the Muslim women who challenged the state authorities’s order argued that hijab was as harmless a spiritual follow as vermilion on the brow, bangles, turban worn by Sikhs and carrying Rudrakshas.

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