Muslim students at MDDM college in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur staged a protest after a female Muslim student was asked to remove her hijab during the exam to check whether she was wearing a Bluetooth device. The college principal termed the exercise a routine check and said that the Muslim students blew out of proportion and gave the incident a communal angle.
“Students have to keep their mobile phones outside before entering the classroom. When teacher in exam hall asked the student to remove hijab & show if she isn’t using Bluetooth device, the girl didn’t show it & got aggressive”, the principal said. Further, the principal said “she said that she won’t write the exams but won’t show her ears. Then she started raising this issue on the basis of religion”.
“It’s shocking that a class 11th girl will behave like this. It seems somebody has misdirected her in the name of religion and hijab. There’s no discrimination based on religion or caste on school premises”, the principal added.
The Muslim student in her statement said, “we were in the classroom and were writing the exam when the teacher asked to take off the hijab saying that we might be wearing a Bluetooth device. On not taking off hijab the teacher asked us to leave”.
