Overview

• The KDMC education department sent a notice to the private school on Tuesday seeking an explanation for its rules and the alleged punitive actions.
• Parents report that students were barred from wearing tilak or tikli, bangles, and rakhi, and say some symbols were forcibly removed with threats of punishment.
• Some complainants also allege that a few students were physically reprimanded.
• Local political party workers took the complaints to KDMC, prompting the civic intervention.
• The school defends its policy as grounded in secularism and student safety and says it has issued no “fatwa,” while KDMC says it wants an amicable resolution.