Two Karnataka Hijab Ban Petitioners Who Insisted On Wearing Head Scarf Denied Entry For PU Exam
Two Muslim girl students from Udupi in Karnataka who were among the first to protest against the hijab ban and challenged it in the court were denied entry into the exam hall on Friday after they insisted on wearing the headscarf.
The two girls, Alia Assadi and Resham- arrived in an auto-rickshaw at the exam centre in Vidyodaya PU College wearing burqas.?
Authorities cite HC order?
But the college authorities denied them entry citing the High Court order.?
Tehsildar Archana Bhat personally spoke to them, but the two girls insisted that they should be allowed to write the exam wearing hijab. Subsequently, the girls returned home.?
According to the college authorities, the girls had not collected their hall tickets till Friday morning.
Just before the examination, they collected their hall tickets and attempted to write the exam in hijab.?
The exam which began on Friday will go on till May 18. The first paper was Business Studies. Over 6.84 lakh students will write the exam at 1,076 centres across the state.?
Appeal to CM
Last week, Aliya Assadi had appealed to the state chief minister Basavaraj Bommai to allow Muslim students to appear for exams wearing headscarves.
"You still have a chance to stop our future from getting ruined. You can make a decision to allow us to write exams wearing hijab. Please consider this. We are the future of this country," she said in a tweet to the CM.
Last month, following the?Karnataka High Court order, which dismissed petitions seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms, Aliya who was one of the six petitioners, who started the protest had said that she would write exams only if they were allowed to were headscarves.?
"If we are allowed to write exams, they need to allow us with hijab. Otherwise, we will not attend classes. We will not go to college without hijab," Aliya had said.
Hijab controversy in Karnataka?
She was one of the six girls who spoke out against the hijab ban in their college.
The girls had alleged that they were denied entry into the campus for wearing hijabs.
The hijab ban later spread to more colleges in Udupi and subsequently across Karnataka.
Karnataka HC order?
Last month the Special Bench of the Karnataka High Court had dismissed their petitions seeking permission to wear hijab and attend classes. It also mentioned that wearing of hijab is not an essential part of Islam.
Following the order, the Karnataka government has banned the hijab in classrooms and announced that hijab-clad students and teachers will not be allowed inside the examination centres.
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