Media enter a classroom and film minor girl students
Incidents of media abuse following the interim order of the Karnataka High COurt as reported by Bahutva Karnataka Network.
The Kannada news channel Public TV aired coverage on 14th and 15th February entered a classroom in a government Urdu school in Gulbarga and without the consent of authorities or parents started filing girl children.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rbXSQtCy4w : In this report, Public TV has claimed that students were asked to remove the hijabs after your channel reported on this in Gulbarga. Visuals of girls with and without the hijabs were repeatedly flashed.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TgndGR8xCE : In this report, the reporter is inside a classroom, disrupting classes, speaking to teachers even as examination papers are being distributed, and speaking to the anchor in the classroom space. The reporter asks the teacher how they allowed students to sit in the classroom with the hijab on.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1Q8IqdSBQ : In this video, the anchor claims that students who were not wearing hijab have now decided to wear the hijab. There is no evidence or substantiation presented. There are also claims being made that the students don’t seem to care about the interim order and have come wearing the hijab.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6ZGp9UaBc In this report, the claim is made that only after Public TV’s coverage, teachers have got the girls to remove their hijab. The reporter claims that this should have been done by teachers but “we have had to do the work of warning them…Schools have left students to sit in classes with the hijab. Both students and schools don’t seem to be inclined to following the high court order."
5. Mudigere -Police enter school premises and send girls wearing hijab out of the school
The Cognate on 15th February reported that in a school in Mudigere, around 20 hijab-clad students were sent out of class after the police department entered.
