No HC decision yet, hijab stir spreads

Shyam Sundar Vattam | NT

The hijab controversy is spreading fast across the state with more students continuing to defy the interim order of High Court of Karnataka and trying to enter colleges wearing headscarves on Thursday,

There were complaints from students and parents that college authorities and the police were insisting that students should remove the hijab before entering the campus when the ban applied only to entry into classrooms.

Arguments between parents of hijab wearing students and police personnel were witnessed at several colleges. In Belagavi, the police took six youth into custody as they entered into a wordy duel with the cops for denying entry into a para-medical college.

The youth raised slogans against the college principal. Later, the students wearing headscarves returned home.