On Tuesday, the Hijab controversy in Karnataka heated up again, with one girl announcing that she will boycott her exam as a result of the diktat.

Scenes of enraged parents of such youngsters arguing with police and school officials were also reported, as well as a pupil attempting to flaunt a saffron scarf in apparent revenge.

In an interim decision issued last week, the Karnataka High Court prohibited all pupils from wearing saffron shawls, scarves, hijab, or any religious flag within the classroom.

On Monday, high schools across the state reopened, despite reports of pupils arriving in Hijab and burqa, only to be denied access or forced to remove them by officials citing the High Court order.

A Burqa-wearing girl refused to write her exam on Tuesday at a school in Shivamogga, the district capital town after the school authorities requested her to remove her Hijab first.

“We’ve been wearing hijab since we were children and can’t imagine without wearing it now. I’m not going to take the exam and will instead return home “Reporters were informed by the girl.

Muslim girls were not allowed to enter a government school in Indavara village, Chikkamagaluru district, and were asked to leave.

The parents quickly arrived at the school and staged a demonstration. They stormed the university, shouting anti-government slogans and demanding that the order be written down.

Another student took a saffron scarf from his schoolbag as the protest became more intense. He stuffed it back inside, as instructed by his teachers.

The principal decided to close the school for the day after recognising the situation.

Students wearing hijabs were denied access to another university in Chikkamagaluru town, causing conflict. Parents descended on the school, demanding to know why their children were not let to enter.

The gathering was told that there was a High Court injunction prohibiting anyone wearing a hijab or saffron scarves from taking the exam, but the parents were not willing to listen and urged that their children take the exam.

Muslim parents flocked to SVS School in Tumakuru, the district capital town, after their daughters were turned away for wearing hijab.

Following that, police officers arrived on the scene and ordered the parents and girls to leave the school. They, too, cited the order of the High Court.

The Karnataka High Court’s full bench, hearing the Hijab ban case, issued an interim injunction restricting admission of anyone wearing the hijab and saffron scarf till the final order is issued.

Students of Udupi and Kundapura had addressed the court, claiming that Hijab was an important religious practice and questioning the government decision of February 5 prohibiting any student from wearing clothing that could disrupt peace, harmony, or law and order.

After tensions in schools and colleges over the Hijab vs. saffron scarves debate, the government issued an edict.

Six female students from a Udupi college attended a news conference organised by Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town on January 1 to protest the administration’s refusal to allow them into the classroom because they were wearing the hijab.

It had been four days since they had requested permission from the principal to wear hijabs in class, which was not permitted. According to the college principal Rudra Gowda, pupils formerly wore Hijab to campus and attended the classroom after removing their scarves.

“In the last 35 years, no one has worn a hijab to class because the institution didn’t have a regulation against it. Outside forces backed the students who came up with their demand “According to Gowda.