Students Urge India Supreme Court to Take Up Muslim Girls’ Plea to Allow Hijab at Exams

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of students on Wednesday urged India’s Supreme Court to give an urgent hearing to an application to permit girl students to appear in annual examinations of the colleges in Karnataka wearing Hijab – headscarf.

Representing a batch of students from Karnataka, advocate Shadan Farasat in a mentioning urged a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha to hold an urgent listing of the application seeking top court’s nod for the Muslim girl students to wear Hijab during annual examination of the colleges in Karnataka.

The annual examinations are scheduled to begin from March 9, 2023.

Source: thestatesman.com