The Karnataka government on Wednesday decided to abide by the High Court’s (HC) interim order of banning religious symbols in schools after a series of protests broke out against a ban in schools that prohibited Muslim students from wearing hijabs.

The Lahore High Court, in a shocking turn of events earlier this week, acquitted Waseem Azeem, who had strangled and killed his sister Qandeel Baloch, a well-known Pakistani social media star, in 2016 in order to defend his family’s “honor.”

In a televised speech presented to the Indian Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed leaders of the opposition parties, including that of the Indian National Congress