Women shouldn't wear jeans, use mobiles: Bijnor DM

December 10, 2012 08:49

CNN-IBN reports: A regressive and strange diktat has ruffled feathers in Uttar Pradesh. Muslim woman students in Bijnor cannot wear their black burkhas as woman students have been barred from wearing any clothing of black colour. Reports say women have also been barred from wearing jeans and using mobile phones.

This order has come not from any religious body, but the district magistrate of Bijnor who is a woman herself. Locals in Bijnor are up in arms against the DM's absurd diktat.

However, the district magistrate has denied forcing it upon anybody.

"There is no such ban. We have just asked them to wear sober clothes. Our directive to the girls is being misinterpreted. No one has been forced to do anything," District Magistrate Sarika Mohan said

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