Karnataka extends school vacations, seeks document on ‘college namaz’ video
The Karnataka executive on Saturday prolonged the vacations for all pre-university faculties until February 15 as a preventive step to take care of peace in view of the raging hijab controversy, even because the prime courtroom is scheduled to listen to the case associated with the headband ban in faculties on February 14.
The courtroom has banned a wide variety of spiritual apparel until a judgment is handed within the case. Pre-university scholars are scheduled to have their ultimate tests from April 16. The universities have remained close since February nine after the hijab row erupted. The upper training division has introduced the closure of all first-grade and postgraduate faculties in addition to universities and technical institutes until February 16.
The police held flag marches within the communally delicate dual districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi after a few incidents had been reported.
Schooling division officers visited a college in Ankathadka in Dakshina Kannada after a video emerged of scholars purportedly providing the Friday namaz in a school room there on February 4. A division reliable stated the scholars introduced Friday prayers with out the information in their lecturers. In keeping with assets, the scholars began praying in school rooms after the college government grew to become down their request for extra recess time on Fridays to consult with mosques.
Police had been deployed in entrance of a faculty in Bengaluru on Saturday after a instructor allegedly used derogatory phrases regarding a piece of scholars in context to hijab row.
Block Schooling Officer Lokesh C stated a document were sought at the factor and that motion can be initiated. The academics have now directed the scholars to not have interaction in any non secular actions inside of school rooms.
In Bengaluru, a non-public college instructor was once suspended for allegedly making derogatory remarks about non secular clothes. As other folks accumulated in entrance of the college on Saturday morning, probably the most folks, Shahabuddin, instructed journalists that the hijab was once now not a subject within the state capital. “This college has about 80 consistent with cent Muslim scholars, and there’s no divide between Hindus and Muslims. However a instructor used derogatory language whilst regarding a piece of scholars, which precipitated us to return to the college. It’s been solved.”
S Rajendra, deputy director of public instruction for Bengaluru South, visited the college along side police.
In the meantime, Udupi BJP MLA Raghupathi Bhat claimed that he had gained risk calls from native numbers and world numbers of unidentified other folks after the hijab ban snowballed into an issue. Bhat is the president of the school building tracking committee of Executive Ladies Pre-College Faculty of Udupi, the place the debate began. He stated he had knowledgeable House Minister Araga Jnanendra of the calls.
