Hijab row reaches Delhi, Class VI student barred from class in school at Mustafabad
Zee News
The incident came to light after a video of the girl narrating the alleged incident was posted on Twitter by a user, which is now being shared widely.
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing hijab controversy, a Class VI student was allegedly barred from class in a government school in northeast Delhi’s Mustafabad for wearing a hijab.
The matter came to light after a video of the girl narrating the alleged incident was posted on Twitter by Kashif Afroz, which is now being shared widely. The tweet identified the girl as a student of a Delhi government school in Tukhmirpur, Delhi. “The girl was asked to not act like a mother. Along with her, the hijab of two other girls was also removed,” Afroz tweeted.
In the video, the girl said that she was asked to remove the hijab. “My teacher told me to remove my headscarf. She said, ‘Mummy mat bano. Kal se scarf pehenke mat aana nahi toh class se bahar nikaal doing (Don’t be like your mother. Don’t wear a scarf from tomorrow, or you will be removed from class).’ Two more girls wearing scarves were also asked to remove them,” the girl said.
According to a report in the Hindustan Times, Mohammad Ayyub Gauri, 38, father of the girl, said it was his daughter’s first day at the school and she studied at a private school earlier.
“My daughter went to the school on Monday, her first day in the school. The teacher in her class humiliated her in front of the entire class and rebuked her. ‘What are you wearing? Don’t act like a mother and wear this to the classroom again,’ the teacher told her. She was harassed in front of 40-50 children and was on the verge of breaking down. She removed her hijab after that,” Gauri said.
