Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mangalorean.Com- Muslim girl students can wear Burkha in uniform colour, Bharath gets threat calls

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    • Puttur/Mangalore
    • In a bid to solve the controversy in SVS College, Bantwal over the ban on Muslim girls wearing the traditional burkha, the management of Uppinangady Govrernment First Grade College today took the decision to allow the students to wear headscarf in the college uniform colour.
    • Threats

      The SVS college union president Mr Bharath Kulal today lodged a complaint with the Bantwal Town police alleging that he has been receiving threat calls on his cell phone.

      Addressing the presspersons here today Bharath said he has received four threat calls so far with the first call on Tuesday, a day after the veil controversy was unfolded by the media. He said he received two more calls on Wednesday and also on Thursday from an international number presumed to be through VoIP as the number was prefixed with +12053 and +4044. The caller who refused to identify himself spoke in Tulu and reportedly threatened Bharath of dire consequences.