Last week the girls came to the college in Puttur Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district wearing Hijab and protested demanding permission to wear the headscarf. The CDC met and has decided to suspend them
23 college girl students suspended for protesting to wear Hijab inside classroom
The Uppinangady Government First Grade College management has suspended 23 girl students who were staging a protest demanding permission to wear Hijab inside the campus and classroom last week. The Puttur BJP MLA and the College Development Committee (CDC) chairman Sanjeeva Matandoor said, “The students staged a demonstration. So they were suspended on Monday.”
As per the sources, last week the girls came to the college in Puttur Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district wearing Hijab and protested demanding permission to wear the headscarf. The CDC met and has decided to suspend them.
The panel had also suspended seven girl students for coming to the college wearing Hijab. The girls has been insisting upon wearing Hijab despite the Karnataka High Court order this year that a head scarf is not an essential religious practice in Islam and everyone should abide by the uniform dress rule in the educational institutions wherever there is a dress code.
On March 15, the Karnataka High Court dismissed the petitions filed by a group of Muslim students, seeking permission to wear the hijab on campus and inside the classrooms. The three-judge bench of the court consisting of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice J M Khazi further noted that the prescription of school uniforms is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible, which the students cannot object to.
After the High Court order, the Department of Pre-University Education has made uniforms prescribed by the College Development Committee, compulsory for Pre-University (PU) students from the academic year 2022-23.
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