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The parents of the Muslim student, who was at the centre of a controversy recently for wearing a hijab at a church-run CBSE-affiliated school in Palluruthy, have decided to transfer their daughter to another institution, citing mental stress.

The matter pertains to a controversy that erupted at St Rita’s Public School, a private school run by a Christian management in Kochi’s Palluruthy, following an escalation of a dispute with the parents of the eighth-standard student over her wearing a hijab.

On Monday, the school declared a two-day holiday, as an official alleged that the parents were backed by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), a pro-Islamist political outfit, and that its members misbehaved with the school authorities, who are mostly nuns.

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