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Two men were arrested for carrying “lethal weapons” during Karnataka’s Hijab march in Kundapur in Karnataka’s Udupi district.
The fight over the right to wear a hijab began weeks ago after six students at a government college said they had been barred from wearing their hijabs.
Over the past week, the demonstrations by college students in the district over their right to wear a hijab have increased, which evoked counter groups by other students wearing saffron scarves in retaliation, draping the scarves over their college uniforms and shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ while going to college. Other videos showed police breaking up groups of saffron-clad protestors gathered near a market area and shouting slogans. The college has barred any students from wearing “religious” garbs of dress on campus.
Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra has said students should “neither wear the hijab nor saffron scarves” when attending classes.
During the march, two men have been arrested in Kundapur in Karnataka’s Udupi district for allegedly carrying deadly weapons during a protest at a government college over students’ right to wear a hijab in classrooms. Police are on the lookout for three other accused.
NDTV shares about this in a video: See below: The girls have still been barred from attending the classes.
The accused – at least one is a repeat criminal – have been apprehended with attempted homicide, rioting with a deadly weapon, and criminal conspiracy. They were part of a group of five people spotted lingering around the protest site on Friday, and are not believed to be part of the students’ agitation.
Police told NDTV one of the accused is from a village nearby. Police also said they were searching for the other three accused. It is unclear at this time if they have any political affiliations. The arrested are Rajab, 41, and Abdul Majid, 32, who has seven cases registered against him. Cases against both were filed at the police station in Gangolli village near Kundapur town.
Kundapur Police were acting on information received when they arrived at the protest site and arrested the two accused; the other three managed to flee the scene.
This incident happened on the same day when 40 female students – wearing the hijab – protested at the gates of arts and science college in Kundapur and college staff denied entry of the girls inside the campus.
The students – all between 18 and 20 years old, and missing classes for a second straight day – demanded to know why their college had banned the hijab when the rules did not forbid it.
Forty male Muslim students protested in solidarity with their female classmates.
The protests have also sparked a political row between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, with Rahul Gandhi accusing the former of “robbing the future of the daughters of India”.