Allahabad High Court has dismissed a minor students plea seeking permission to wear a hijab with her school uniform, saying she failed to provide sufficient factual or legal material to establish it as an essential religious practice in Islam. Muslim clerics have criticised the verdict and said hijab should be allowed with prescribed school uniforms.

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.