Udupi: As they have done for weeks now, five students from the Women’s Pre-University (PU) in Udupi Karnataka District arrived at the gate of the Monday morning institution, their heads were covered with headscarves (headscarves). With the Institute forbade entries to students wearing hijab since December last year, five – a.h. Almas, H. Shifa, Aliya Assadi and two small students aged 17 years, still standing outside the campus gate.
PU or Junior College is how grade 11 and 12 are referred to in Karnataka. So, the first PU is class 11 and the second PU is 12th grade.
The five students, represented by their parents, have submitted a petition from the Karnataka High Court, looking for their intervention to allow them to attend classes in Hijab, and HC arranged to hear this problem Tuesday. On Saturday, the Karnataka government ordered a ban on clothing that interfered with equality, integrity, and public order in schools and colleges.
“I hope that the judge in this case will give us a positive response. I hope he will uphold constitutional values and respect our guarantee rights to wear a headscarf. The Constitution has ensured equality and education to us. I do not understand why the Karnataka Government does not ( do it), “Ah Almas, a second PUC student to Thecrint Monday.
What started as a dispute about the use of headscarves between the small sexy Muslim girls and managing PU College women Udupi, now have taken political and ideological colors, with demonstrations witnessed throughout Karnataka, and part of Hindu students who wear a saffron scarf as protest against Muslim students wear headscarves.
“There are 1,000 students on our campus, around 100 are Muslims. None of them have problems except groups of students who are not disciplined and unmorned,” Alleged Rudre Gowda, Principal of PU College Women Udupi, while speaking to the Thecrint Monday.
“They are poor in academics and their presence and report cards have been sent to the minority welfare board too. They are out of help and extort us. We have held talks with parents and their community leaders several times and they have understood that girls act below The influence of others, “said Gowda, one of the respondents to the girl’s high court petition.
While students agree that there are more than 90 Muslim girls who attend classes without headscarves, they are not the first here to wear it, they also don’t take them to wear them recently, they claim. “It’s a lie that we started wearing a headscarf now. Some of our seniors are used to wear headscarves too. Sometimes, the teachers will try to pull it and the PIN used to secure the hijab will cause injury and bleeding. We have been discriminated against and harassed for wearing a headscarf For years, “H. Shifa, another second puck student, was accused.