After Karnataka Hijab Ban Order, 8 Students Refused Entry For Exam
NDTV
Karnataka Hijab Ban: This college had earlier allowed the students to wear the Hijab inside classrooms but cited the High Court order today.
On the day the Karnataka High Court ruled that the hijab is not an essential religious practice, backing a state government ban on religious clothing in schools and colleges, eight burqa-clad students in a Karnataka district were not allowed to appear for exams.
Eight students who had come to Kembhavi village PU college in Yadgir district of Karnataka wearing hijabs to take their second PU preparatory examinations were turned away.
Before the High Court's interim ban, this college allowed the students to wear the hijab inside classrooms.
The eight students had taken the exams yesterday without a hijab but refused to remove them today. When the authorities failed to convince them, they were asked to leave the college premises.
