The Department of Secondary Education in India has issued a statement saying that female students from the state of Karnataka who took part in protests in favor of the hijab will not be allowed to retake their final exams, reports the Hindustan Times. The department explained its decision by the fact that the girls deliberately skipped the exams in February and March, going to the rally. Although Muslim women simply did not want to give up their obligation to wear a hijab, without which they were not allowed to go to school.

Thus, the state authorities declared them “absent from exams without good reason”, leaving the girls who graduated from school without a certificate.

“How can we even consider retaking? If we allow schoolgirls who boycotted exams because they were banned from wearing the hijab to retake them despite the decision of the Supreme Court, then other students will also not go to exams and come up with their own reasons in order to be able to retake,” the minister said. primary and secondary education.

However, an MP from the Udupi constituency still urged the government to give girls a second chance if they show up for exams bareheaded, on the grounds that quite a few students miss exams for various reasons, and all of them have the opportunity to retake. However, his demand was rejected.

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