A court in northern India says it is against the country's constitution for female students to be barred from a main university library.
Several thousand female undergraduates at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh are being barred from entering the Maulana Azad Library.
The University's Vice-Chancellor has reportedly argued that female students would attract a lot of young men.
He has also argued that young women can order books online instead.
The Allahabad High Court addressed the issue after a petition was filed by a law intern, supported by the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN). [BBC] Read more
