Srinagar: Soon after the circular of Dagger Parivaar School Baramulla surfaced on social media platforms instructing its staff to “avoid” hijab during school hours, PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that she condemns the letter issuing ‘diktats’ on hijab.
A Kashmiri student, part of the protesting group in Budgam, displays a placard in solidarity with Karnataka students who were denied entry into colleges for wearing Hijab. [FPK File Photo/ Mukhtar Zahoor]
In the aftermath of the surfacing of the circular about hijab, which triggered a widespread condemnation on social media, News18 while quoting an official source reported that officials would recall the circular and issue a new one.
“A teacher has done a mistake and created a controversy,” the report quoted the official as saying. “The school has children of all faiths and we don’t discriminate.”
The development came just over a month after the Karnataka High Court on March 15 upheld the ban on the hijab in educational institutes in the state. The court had held that the hijab was not an essential part of Islam and thus could not be protected under the fundamental right to religion.
The order has been challenged in the Supreme Court.
In February, Hindu students and mobs of men protested against Muslim women wearing hijabs to educational institutes in Karnataka.
At some colleges, Muslim students were heckled, while in another case, some men climbed up a flagpole to plant a saffron flag and broke into classrooms.
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