A Muslim woman was allegedly stopped from taking an examination after she refused to take her hijab off at the Annamalai Matriculation Higher Secondary School, located near Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu.
Shabana who is an Arabic
teacher at a private school, appeared for the Hindi Madhyama exams on Sunday, August 20.
Fifteen minutes after the exam by the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha began, she was ordered to remove her hijab to continue the paper.