NEET 2017: Kerala Assembly condemns ‘harassment’ over CBSE dress code

Students were then asked to remove head scarves, nose-pins and cut sleeves of their tops. One girl in Kannur was even made to remove her top innerwear in order to be allowed in the exam centre when the detector beeped, sensing the metal hook in the clothing.

The CM said the Kannur incident will be examined legally after a case has been registered and added that a female police official has been directed to meet with the girl’s family. He said that the frisking and the necessity of removing or modifying clothes for the exam caused undue pressure on the students and called it a “mental agony”.

“Students had to beg, borrow and buy new dresses to appear for the examination after they were told that their clothing was not as per norms,” said Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, adding that this was “cruel, inhuman and insulting”.

Chennithala called the incident a human rights violation and urged the Assembly to pass a unanimous vote against such norms which were an “insult to humanity”.

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