Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jun 7: A Muslim student was on Wednesday June 7 refused entry the Legislative Assembly hall in Vidhana Soudha for wearing hijab, a news channel reported.

The girl was part of a group of students from Christ College who had come to the Vidhana Soudha to watch the ongoing Assembly session.

While the students were entering the gallery of the Assembly hall, the girl was stopped by the guards and asked to remove her scarf, but the student refused to do so.

News agency IANS reported that the student was asked to remove her burqa.

The police asked her to remove the burqa and subjected her to security check for around 20 minutes, IANS said.

The girl student of Christ Junior College was in tears when the security staff told her to remove the burqa.

"Someone took a video of the police asking her to remove the burqa," Christ Junior College Principal Fr Biju K Chacko told IANS.

"The police allowed her to enter the assembly gallery only after the teachers assured them about the girl's identity," he said.