{ KERALA GOVT TELLS COURT } ‘Not allowing hijab denial of right to a secular edu’

The Kerala government on Friday told the high court that not permitting a Muslim girl to wear her headscarf (hijab) to school was an “invasion” of her privacy and dignity and a “denial of her right to secular education”.

- Press Trust of India

The government said the right of the girl to wear a head-scal rf in her house and outside it, “does not stop at the school gate”.

The submissions were made in an affidavit filed in response toa plea moved by the church-run St Rita's Public School at Palluruthy here challenging the general education department's directive to permit the Muslim girl to attend classes wearing her religious headscarf or hijab.