For three weeks now, six students in a government PU college in Karnataka have been denied permission to enter class over wearing a hijab, in violation of the dress code prescribed by the college.
The incident was reported from Udupi in Karnataka where the six students have been marked as absent from college and denied entry for wearing hijabs.
The students have claimed that even as their parents approached the principal of the college, he refused to have any interaction with them.
College authorities, however, were approached by two organizations- The Campus Front of India and Girls Islamic Organization to have the issue resolved. The meeting, however, did not make an impact. A member from the CFI also claimed that the girls were threatened to write a letter citing that they had voluntarily not attended classes for the past 15 days and that they were under severe mental pressure.
Recently, similar incidents in Karnataka of a row over wearing hijab to educational institutions were reported in Mangaluru and Chikkamagaluru as well. In Mangaluru, as retaliation to Muslim girls wearing a hijab, a group of Hindu students sported saffron scarves to college.
College authorities in the Udupi government PU college, however, have claimed that the college has several other students from the minority communities, none of whom have violated the uniform rules. They have also said that these students are backed by a politically inclined leftist CFI which is looking at creating controversy on campus.
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