Protests erupted between students wearing saffron shawls and hijab outside ahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Karnataka ahead of the high court hearing. The students were heard chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans. Speaking with India Today TV, a student said, "They have been banned from wearing hijab but some of them came to the classroom wearing hijab. If they are wearing hijab, we will also wear saffron shawls."

Another student in a hijab said, "We have been wearing this since childhood, how can they ask us to remove it now?"