Indian court rejects Muslim student's plea to wear hijab with school uniform

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A teenage Muslim schoolgirl in India has been denied the right to wear her hijab to school after a High Court ruled she had failed to prove that wearing the headscarf constitutes an “essential religious practice” of Islam. The ruling was issued by the Allahabad High Court in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh […] The post Indian court rejects Muslim student’s plea to wear hijab with school uniform appeared first on 5Pillars.