Some Muslim girls attended classes and appeared for internal examinations without the hijab in government colleges in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts on March 16, a day after the verdict on wearing a headscarf inside classrooms by a three-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court.
Sources said that of 17 Muslim girl students at the Government First Grade College in Kaup in Udupi district, four attended the internal examinations. Another nine students, who had also turned up at the college, refused to remove the hijab to appear for the examinations.
The Registrar (administration) of Mangalore University C. K. Kishor Kumar, quoting college authorities, said that the nine students initially told the college authorities that the High Court order applied only to pre-university students and not to college students. After they were apprised of the court order by the college authorities, the students said that they had not come prepared for the examinations and will appear for the examinations from March 17. The students later returned home.
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