As many as 28 students in two colleges in the city were sent back home on Wednesday for wearing hijab to classes. Mangaluru police commissioner N Shashi Kumar told reporters that in four other colleges, students who came to classes wearing hijabs were allowed inside classrooms after removing their scarves.
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Classes went on smoothly in all the colleges, which reopened today after a week-long holiday declared by the government following trouble in some campuses over the hijab issue.
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The commissioner said the hijab issue came up in six colleges on the day. The authorities at Pompei PU college sent back 26 hijab-clad students after telling them about the High Court order, while at the Dayanand Pai degree college, two students who wore hijab were sent home.?
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In four other colleges, hijab-clad students were allowed inside classes after removing their headscarves, Shashi Kumar said, adding there was no case of any student wearing saffron shawls on campuses.?

With PTI inputs.