Non-Muslim students cannot be forced by school to wear hijab; should be allowed to wear sacred thread, tilak: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Court was dealing with a case where non-Muslim students were alleged to have been forced to wear a head scarf (Hijab), while also being denied permission to wear their own religious essentials, such as tilak.
Madhya Pradesh High Court and Hijab
Madhya Pradesh High Court and Hijab
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The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently granted bail to a school principal, a teacher, and a peon of a school in Damoh district, where girl students of all religions were allegedly being forced to wear hijabs and students forced to learn Islamic prayers. [Afsha Sheikh and ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh]

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