Islamic Centre of India Chairman Maulana Khalid Rasheed on Tuesday criticised the Allahabad High Court's order, dismissing a petition filed by a minor student of a school in Prayagraj, who had sought permission to wear a Hijab additionally along with the prescribed school dress code.

Petition seeking direction to school authorities to allow a girl student to wear headscarf dismissed

The Allahabad High Court dismissed a Muslim student's plea to wear a hijab with her school uniform, ruling it is not an essential religious practice under Islam.