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…the principal of the school, where the examination was held in the district, Jalaluddin K said: “We have clear instructions that if the metal detector beeps, no one can be allowed inside. Whenever it beeped, we told students to remove what they have.”
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9 May 2017
Four teachers suspended but not the principal.
Hindustan TimesVerified account @htTweets 3 hours ago
#NEET shocker: Four teachers suspended for allegedly telling Kerala student to remove bra
Four female teachers, who reportedly forced a 17-year-old student in north Kerala’s Kannur to remove her bra as part of stringent measures during the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), were suspended by school authorities on Tuesday amid widespread protests.
The state human rights commission sought a report from the district police chief on the Sunday incident at TISK Higher Secondary School in Payyanur. Many youth organisations staged a protest march outside the school and the issue also figured in the state assembly as members cutting across political parties condemned it.
“Four teachers have been suspended and the school management has constituted a two-member panel to enquire the whole incident,” a school spokesperson said.
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8 May 2017
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‘They made my daughter remove her bra’: NEET Kerala centre’s dress code demand goes too far
Having prepared hard for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) all through the year, 18-year-old Anitha*, a native of Kerala’s Kannur district, walked into a school in Koovappuram on Sunday, to appear for the entrance exam.
Anitha followed other students to the security cubicle for the mandatory security check. But she now recounts with horror, of being forced to remove her bra before entering the exam hall, because it had metal hooks.
The anguished candidate told media persons after attempting the NEET — conducted for admission to undergraduate medical courses in government and private medical colleges in the country — that she was asked by the examination centre’s officials to remove her bra.
“I reached the exam centre by 8 and was wearing a half-sleeve top and a black pant. At the gate, they told me that dark coloured pants weren’t allowed and that I needed to change, to be allowed inside the exam hall. Yesterday being a Sunday, most of the shops remained shut. My mother and I had to walk for at least 2 km to find a shop, get a change of clothes and then return to the exam hall,” Anitha says.
Ten minutes before the exam commenced, Anitha had prayers on her lips when she walked through the metal detector just outside the hall.
“When I walked through the metal detector, it beeped. I told them that it was my bra-strap that had a metal hook on it, but they refused to let me in. They insisted that I remove it. Although I argued with them that the rules does not mention anything about innerwear, they refused to hear my pleas. Then I went to one side of the room, removed my bra and handed it over to my mother who was standing outside the gate. As I entered the exam hall to write the test, I had little confidence left in me,” Anitha says.
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Commotion As Student is Forced To Remove Her Br@, P@nts, Before Writing Exam
For many years, the Education Boards in India have grappled with examination malpractice. To tackle the malpractice, often seen on a large scale across the country, these boards have of late issued strict dress codes, that unfairly put innocent students in trouble.
A girl in Kerala’s Kannur district reportedly had to take off her bra minutes before writing an important and potentially life-changing examination.
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“I told them that it was my bra-strap that had a metal hook on it, but they refused to let me in. They insisted that I remove it. Although I argued with them that the rules (do) not mention anything about innerwear, they refused to hear my pleas,” she told The News Minute. The girl eventually had to take her bra off and hand it over to her mother who was waiting outside.
http://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2017/05/commotion-as-student-is-forced-to.html
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NEW DELHI: Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala Monday ordered a probe into allegations that an 18-year-old student was forced to remove her bra at an exam centre as part of stringent measures to stop cheating in a national-level medical entrance examination, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
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