India: Bengaluru college asks Sikh girl to remove turban

NEW DELHI, 24 February 2022, (TON): Amid the fierce debate over allowing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, a 17-year-old Amritdhari (baptised) Sikh girl was asked by her college to remove her turban as the college has a uniform dress code.

It has to follow the February 10 interim order of the Karnataka high court restraining students from “wearing saffron shawls, hijab and religious flags or the like in classrooms of colleges which have prescribed a uniform”.

The girl’s family, while insisting that the college never discriminated and has always been very considerate and polite, said the Karnataka government and the high court have to clarify on the matter and issue instructions.

The student of Mount Carmel PU College, Bengaluru, who is also the president of the students’ association, was politely asked to remove her turban for the first time on February 16 to which she refused.

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