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News Desk: On Tuesday, at a school in the district headquarters town of Shivamogga, a Burqa-wearing girl refused to write her exam when the school authorities asked her to remove her Hijab first.
“We have grown up wearing Hijab since our childhood and we cannot give it up. I will not write the exam and I will go home” the girl said.
In a government school in Indavara village in Chikkamagaluru district, Muslim girls were not let inside the school and were asked to go back.
Soon, their parents reached the school and staged a protest. They barged into the campus, raised slogans and demanded that the order should be given to them in writing.
As the protest intensified, another student pulled out a saffron scarf from his school bag. On the direction of his teachers, he put it back inside.
Sensing the situation, the principal closed the school for the day.
In another institution in Chikkamagaluru town, tension prevailed over denial of entry to the students with hijab. Parents swarmed the school and questioned the school authorities how their children were not allowed inside.
Policemen deployed there told the crowd that there was a High Court order not to let anyone wearing Hijab or saffron scarves but the parents were not ready to listen and insisted that their wards be allowed to write the exam.
In SVS School in the district headquarters town of Tumakuru, Muslim parents thronged its premises after their daughters were turned away for wearing hijab.
Subsequently, policemen rushed to the spot and made the parents and girls leave the school. They too cited the High Court order.
