57-year-old cop "shoots himself" dead in Telangana police station
Hyderabad, Sept 18: A 57-year old head constable allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting himself at a police station in Nizamabad District in Telangana, police said.
Prakash Reddy, posted at the Indalwai Police Station as in-charge of the safe custody of weapons, came to the station at 7.30 am and took a pistol from the armoury. After about half-an hour later, he shot himself in the head at point blank range, they said.
Hearing the noise, other personnel on duty rushed and shifted the head constable to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, a senior police official told PTI.
Reddy, due to retire next year, was apparently under depression "may be due to some personal reasons", the official said adding investigations were on.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
