Varanasi, May 9 -- A Muslim teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi has alleged that a school asked her to leave on her first day teaching for wearing a hijab, days after she claimed to have been facing religious discrimination while job-searching.

"Aaj kal ke daur me nai Muslim teacher ko grow hona bohot mushkil hai. Pata nahi kyun har jagah ye nafrath feli ki apne bacche ko Muslim teacher se anhi padhainge (In today's times, it is extremely difficult for a new Muslim teacher to grow professionally. I don't know why, but everywhere you go this hatred has spread)," Samreen Bano said in an Instagram video.

She claimed that people will not have their children taught by a Muslim teacher. "No matter where you go, whether to give a demo lesson o...