Educational institutes in southern India’s Karnataka state can ban the hijab, a court ruled on Tuesday in a closely watched case that had sparked widespread protests in India amid deepening religious tensions.
The ruling from the Karnataka high court came after Muslim students challenged a ban on headscarves in some educational institutions in the state, calling it a violation of their rights. The state government, run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party , argued that wearing a hijab is not an essential practice of Islam.
“We were conducting online classes so that preparations for the examinations were not disturbed,” Hoode said. “Now, I’m not even sure if these children will be allowed to write examinations.” Some Muslim teachers were also caught up in the ban. Chandini Naz, an English teacher at a government school in Karnataka, resigned from her job in February after the institute asked her to remove her hijab in the classroom for the first time in her three years of teaching there.Naz said it was “unfair” to make people choose between faith and education. “How does wearing the hijab hinder anyone?” she asked.
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