As schools reopened in Karnataka, a number of videos of school students being forced to remove their hijab by teachers at the gate are being circulated in social media platforms with many condemning the school managements for humiliating the students. The direction was made after the interim High court order which said educational institutions could re-open but no religious clothing would be allowed. Due to the hijab issue, school, colleges were being shut for nearly a week.

In a video which is doing rounds in social media, a teacher of a government-run school in Mandya district is seen ordering female students to “remove that hijab” before entering the school premises. The videos also shows the parents of the school girls arguing with the teachers but they end up making their children to remove their hijab in order to make them enter the premises to study.

Watch the videos below :

Students of Rotary educational society school Mandya remove hijab when they were asked to, to attend classes. Most schools have enforced the ban on religious clothing earlier ordered by the Karnataka HC. ⁦@TheQuint⁩ pic.twitter.com/SBgScpCZox

— Nikhila Henry (@NikhilaHenry) February 14, 2022

Students of Kasturba Balika government school in Shimoga remove hijab to attend classes as Karnataka High Court has enforced a ban on religious clothing in educational institutions. Schools where earlier hijab was allowed have also imposed the ban. ⁦@TheQuint⁩ pic.twitter.com/2FsCW7JiNV

— Nikhila Henry (@NikhilaHenry) February 14, 2022

Videos of students returning from school after being asked to remove the hijab were also surfaced and some schools allowed the girls to enter class room by wearing the hijab.

Students of a Shimoga school refuse to remove hijab and leave the campus. The Karnataka high court order on ban on religious clothing has led to Muslim students missing out on classes, the first day the schools reopened after closure. ⁦@TheQuint⁩ pic.twitter.com/a6s31PpbWg

— Nikhila Henry (@NikhilaHenry) February 14, 2022

Students of Government Urdu higher secondary school, Kalburgi allowed to wear hijab in classroom as rules of the school permit hijab. The Karnataka HC had earlier banned religious clothing in educational institutions where rules do not permit the same. ⁦@TheQuint⁩ pic.twitter.com/zRlzIKyzVH

— Nikhila Henry (@NikhilaHenry) February 14, 2022

Over 30 students in Kodagu district were sent back from school after they refused o remove their hijab. In the Sivamogga district, 10 students from class 10 and two from class 9 at the KPS school refused to remove their hijab after which they were prevented from entering the school.

It all started after a college in Udipi had denied entry to some students for wearing the headscarf which represents their religion. The decision resulted in protest from Muslim students, followed by counter protest from Hindu students who wore saffron scarf to educational institutions.

Now, the videos which shows teachers forcing students to remove their headscarf has created outrage among the online users.

What are you going to acheive by doing this ? What harm will this Hijab bring among children ? What you are actually doing is affecting these little kids mentally and making them feel bad for belonging to a religion. pic.twitter.com/F02pWxBvbI

— Prashanth Rangaswamy (@itisprashanth) February 14, 2022

See this entire clip. And weep. The sisters want to attend school like other children. The father has no choice but to remove their scarfs in public. I hang my head in shame. https://t.co/5q6aKWmxER

— Col Pavan Nair 🇮🇳 (@pavannair) February 15, 2022

This was pre-planned humiliation of Muslim children and a kind of revenge.

If there is any law in this country to punish those who humiliated kids publically? https://t.co/XAE47B5NQj

— Shuja (@shuja_2006) February 14, 2022

This is so disturbing. How can they do this? This is wrong. Very wrong. https://t.co/X5kmfUnEYU

— Hasiba | حسيبة | हसीबा 🌈 (@HasibaAmin) February 14, 2022

Muslim girl students being oppressed, under the watch of the Karnataka High Court. https://t.co/l6YogJdLrY

— Yanger Longkumer 🤚 (@YangerINC) February 14, 2022

To make it even worse; how the media has been called from before to capture the humiliation of these young girls live on camera. Disgusting. https://t.co/14Tv6CPtYV

— Anisha Dutta (@A2D2_) February 14, 2022

So very sorry for failing you little girls like this!
Making them remove the hijab like this,is not liberating any girl or women but truly showing power over weak

The small cloth covering head of child has become a threat for this nation,while China invading the borders is not? https://t.co/cg7jUbeWyB

— Purplepanic (@who_Jency) February 14, 2022