On Camera, Karnataka College Students' 'Allow Us In With Hijab' Plea

The issue started on Wednesday when some girls attended college wearing the hijab. This prompted 100 boys to wear saffron shawls.

Students of a Karnataka college were not allowed to attend classes wearing a Hijab, the second such controversy in the state this year.

In a video, which is going viral on social media, students of a pre-university college in Karnataka's Kundapur coastal town of Udupi district can be seen pleading before the principal. The students request the college principal to allow them to attend classes wearing the hijab.

They also tell him that their exams are just two months away, and why is the college creating an issue on wearing the hijab now.

Until now, the norm in the state was that students were allowed to wear the hijab in college, but they would remove it inside the classroom.