Last week, a private college lecturer in Tumakuru district had resigned after she was allegedly asked to remove her hijab by the institute’s administration.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room found the claim to be misleading. The photos in circulation were actually taken at a Mumbai college during the Independence Day celebrations in 2018 and 2019.
The hijab row has intensified further in the coastal district on Friday with Muslim girl students staging flash protests in front of Government PU College and Bhandarkar’s College in Kundapur after the students in headscarves were prevented from entering colleges. The agitating students, joined by parents and members of a few organisations, argued with Principal of Govt PU
The state government issued a directive even as the Karnataka High Court is scheduled to take up petitions demanding that students be allowed to wear hijabs.