Last Update: January 19, 2023, 18:39 IST
A video is going viral on social media (Representational Image: PTI)
The girl students allege that they are not being allowed to enter the college premises and are being forced to remove the burqa at the gate.
The controversy over burqa flared up once again on Thursday when some girl students were denied admission in a college in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, for wearing burqas.
The girl students allege that they are not being allowed to enter the college premises and are being forced to remove the burqa at the gate.
A scuffle allegedly broke out between students, Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha activists and professors of the college, who did not stick to the laid down rules.
A video has gone viral on social media.
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Meanwhile, college professor Dr AP Singh said that they have implemented a dress code for students here and anyone who refuses to follow it will be barred from entering the college premises.
Members of Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha submitted a memorandum to include burqa in the dress code of the college and allow girls to attend their classes wearing it.
Last year, a major controversy erupted when some girl students of Government Girls PU College in Karnataka’s Udupi district alleged that they were barred from attending classes.
During the protest, some students claimed that they were denied admission in the college for wearing the hijab.
The matter was then taken to the Karnataka High Court, which dismissed various petitions challenging the ban on hijab in educational institutions, saying that wearing the hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam.
The Supreme Court delivered a split verdict in the case on October 13, 2022.
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