E-rickshaw driver arrested for alleged knife attack on woman in Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi
New Delhi: An e-rickshaw driver in North Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tila area was arrested on Saturday for allegedly attacking a woman with a knife at his residence, where police suspect he attempted to sexually assault her. The accused has been identified as Kannu Dayadham Naganshi, 31.
The Indian Express said that the police received a PCR call about 5 a.m. The caller stated that a woman had been attacked and her clothing were torn. Responding cops discovered her unresponsive, with injuries to her head and face. She was brought to the Trauma Centre and then referred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital for further treatment. Her statement is yet to be recorded. A medical examination for sexual assault has been conducted, and an FIR has been registered under sections related to attempt to murder.
Naganshi was traced through CCTV footage and local enquiries, while the police revealed that he had previously been arrested in 2013 in a rape and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case in the Civil Lines area.
During questioning, Naganshi told police he had picked up the woman from Gate No. 2 of Vidhan Sabha Metro Station on Friday. He had taken her to his home in his e-rickshaw and allegedly offered her alcohol before assaulting her. When she resisted, he reportedly beat her, threw her outside the house and fled.
Eyewitness accounts from the Metro station and nearby residents are said to support the sequence of events described by the police. A case under Section 109(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered.
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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.
