A woman has resigned as the principal of a college in Maharashtra’s Virar city.
Dr. Batool Hameed, who was the principal of VIVA College of Law in Maharashtra was quoted by Muslim Mirror as saying, she was facing harassment for wearing a hijab in campus.
“For a few days, I feel uncomfortable as the atmosphere around me has been made unharmonious and suffocating,” Dr Battull Hammid said in her resignation letter.
She told Muslim Mirror that she joined the college in July 2019 and everything was alright in the last two years, suddenly my hijab has become a problem to everyone.
People in the management allegedly started targeting her after the Hijab controversy erupted in Karnataka.
One day, some members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, which Ms Hammid also belongs to, came to her office to inquire about admissions. After that, people in the management accused her of indulging in the propagation of her religion on the campus.
In the wake of growing harassment, she had started feeling that the management committee will fire her for one reason or another. So, in a bid to not let that happen, she tendered her resignation. “I resigned to save my dignity and culture,” she said.