The police on Sunday said they had arrested two people carrying ‘deadly weapons’ near the PU College government in Kundapur under the udupi district. In particular, parts of Muslim students on campus held protests on Friday against the decision of the authorities to ban the headscarf (scarf head) on campus.
Arrests have been identified as Abdul Majeed (32) and Rajab (41). The two defendants came from Gangolli, a village near Kundapur.
District police said that five people carried ‘deadly weapons’ and between them, three managed to escape from the place. The case has been registered at the Kundapur police station.
Meanwhile, PU College students at Kundapur and Bhandkarkar’s College have submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner additional Sadashiva Prabhu who asked him to allow them in the classroom wearing a hijab.
Meanwhile, cleaning his position in the controversy of the headscarf, the former main minister and leader of Janata Dal (secular) HD Kumaraswamy said the line was triggered by several political clothing. “In schools and colleges where students have been wearing a headscarf, let them continue to do it. But don’t let them wear a hijab in college where the demand for wearing it has just been raised recently,” he said.
Without mentioning any clothes, he said, “some small political clothes from the Muslim community are involved in producing this controversy. When more Muslim women get education, these people try to create problems.”
He also said that the whole controversy was more than Muslim Hindu problems. The students are being commanderated and these problems have been raised comfortably in running state polls, said Kumaraswamy.
In particular, Putri Hend Bint Faisal Al-Qasimi from the United Arab Emirates, the leaders of the Rahul Gandhi and Siddarama congregers, and former Chief of Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti, among others, have supported student demand by protest against the prohibition of headscarves.
The state government has issued a circle on Saturday which states that the school and university development committees consisting of parents, teachers and selected representatives will make decisions about uniform problems. The government has also carried out “section 133 (2) of the 1983 Karnataka education law, which said the style of uniforms must be used mandatoryly” in a circle.
The order added, “clothes that disrupt equality, integrity and public law and order should not be worn.”