Not Allowing Girl to Wear Hijab to School ‘Denial of Secular Education’: Kerala Government to High Court
24 October 2025 | Deccan Herald
Kochi: The Kerala government on Friday told the High Court here that not permitting a Muslim girl to wear her headscart (hijab) to school was an "invasion" of her privacy and dignity and a "denial of her right to secular education".
The government said the right of the girl to wear a headscarf in her house and outside it, "does not stop at the school gate".
The submissions were made in an affidavit filed in response to a ples moved by the church-run St Rita's Public School at Palluruthy here challenging the General Education Department's directive to permit the Muslim girl to attend classes wearing her religious headscarf or hijab…