The two students had collected their hall tickets from the Women’s Government PU College in Udupi where they studied. Upon their arrival at their examination centre on Friday, the two students were sent back by the invigilators since they insisted on wearing the hijab.

Pooja Veerashetty, a Bajrang Dal teen girl, said on video, “If you want the hijab all over India, we will chop you all with Shivaji’s sword.”

Sikh girl asked to remove turban in class, with college citing the Karnataka HC’s interim order that restricts the use of religious symbols inside institutions until further directions.