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“College is forcing us to choose between studies and the hijab”: Malala Yousafzai opens up on Karnataka hijab row

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Woman’s rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai waded into the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka on Tuesday, calling it ‘horrifying’.

Yousafzai urged Indian leaders to stop the “marginalisation of Muslim women”. She tweeted her outrage:

The row

The controversy in Karnataka erupted in December last year, when six Muslim girls at state-run Udupi Women’s Pre-University college were allegedly not allowed to enter the classroom wearing the hijab. Rudra Gowda, the principal of the college, who allegedly did not allow them to wear hijab in classrooms, said he had done so to ensure uniformity in classrooms.

Later, right-wing groups in Udupi and Chikkamagaluru objected to hijabs and the protests spread across the state. In retaliation, many students turned up in saffron scarves and Dalit students adopted blue scarves in support of hijab-wearing girls.

Issue escalates

As the issue continues to snowball, with the government and the high court being drawn into the fray and similar cases surfacing in Puducherry and Madhya Pradesh, a students’ outfit at Delhi University (DU) on Tuesday protested against the hijab restrictions in the Udupi college. The Muslim Students’ Federation protested outside the Arts Faculty in DU North Campus.

What now

The Karnataka High Court will continue hearing the hijab plea today. The court had yesterday appealed to the students to maintain peace. Meanwhile, the state government on Tuesday announced the closure of high schools and colleges for the next three days.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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