Kochi, Oct. 16 -- The principal of St Rita's Public School in Palluruthy, where the controversy over a student's hijab broke out this week, denied the charges levelled against the school management by the education department and vowed to go to court over the same.

The school management's position became clear on a day the state's General Education Minister V Sivankutty appeared to climb down from his earlier view that the student must be allowed to wear the hijab (headscarf) as part of her religious beliefs.

The Catholic Church-run school reopened for classes on Wednesday after two days even though the student, who insisted on wearing te hijab, did not turn up for classes purportedly due to health issues.

Sivankutty on Tuesday had rai...