'Niqab ban' at PSMO College sparks row
The New Indian Express Kozhikode|December 13, 2024
A SECTION of Muslim groups have lambasted the principal of the Pocker Sahib Memorial Orphanage College in Tirurangadi for allegedly imposing a ban on the 'niqab', a garment worn by Muslim women to cover their face, and threatened protests against the management if the curb was not lifted.
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Around 40 students wearing the niqab had come to the college last Friday for an examination. The college principal, K Azeez, who saw the girls, asked them not to use the niqab while they are on the campus.

His act sparked a row, with the Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF), the student outfit of the EK faction of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama (Samastha), demanded that Azeez and the college management lift "niqab ban" on campus.

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