Students and student organisations have come down heavily on a Chembur college for imposing restrictions on wearing ripped jeans and jerseys. The move comes two months after the college banned burka, naqab, and hijab on campus. On June 27, the principal of N G Acharya and D K Marathe College of Arts, Science, and Commerce went a step ahead and issued a fresh dress code circular banning jeans and T-shirts. This comes days after the Bombay High Court dismissed a plea filed by Muslim female students of the college, challenging the institute’s circular banning hijab and other religious identifiers.

Some students even called the new diktat “outdated, old-fashioned and draconian”. The dress code circular issued recently states: “Students should wear a formal and decent dress while on the campus. They can wear a half-shirt or full-shirt and trousers. Girls can wear any Indian or Western outfits. Students shall not wear any dress which shows religion or cultural disparity. Naqab, hijab, burkha, stole, cap, badge etc shall be removed by going to common rooms on the ground floor and then only students can move throughout the college campus.” It further reads: “Jeans, T-shirts, revealing dresses and jerseys are not allowed.”