Karnataka Hijab row: Students in Hijab sent to separate classrooms

Two colleges in Karnataka declared a holiday on Monday to avoid communal trouble while another allowed students wearing a hijab to sit in separate classrooms as the controversy spread across the state.

The Government Junior PU College, Jundapur allowed the young women on the campus on Monday morning following protests in the past few days. Although, controversially, these students have been seated in separate classrooms and haven't been involved in lessons.

Meanwhile, at the Kalavara Varadaraj M Shetty Government First Grade College, Kundapur, students in hijab were sent home.

In two other colleges in the state, many students wore saffron scarves in a show of protest against their hijab-wearing fellow students.

The High Court will hear petitions filed by five women from a government pre-university college in Udupi, questioning hijab restrictions.