Fire at four-storey building in south Delhi leaves four dead, one injured
New Delhi (PTI): Four people, including a brother-sister duo, died and a woman was injured after a massive fire broke out at a footwear shop in south Delhi's Tigri Extension on Saturday evening, police said.
A PCR call about the blaze at the shop on the ground floor of a four-storey building was received at 6.24 pm following which police rushed to the spot, they said.
Upon arrival, police found the entire building engulfed in flames, a senior police said.
It is suspected that the blaze started from the footwear shop on the ground floor before spreading upward, the officer said.
Three people were found dead at the spot, while two injured women were rescued from the building and shifted to a hospital, the officer said, adding that one of the injured later succumbed to injuries.
The deceased have been identified as Satender alias Jimmy (38), who is the owner of the building, and his sister Anita (40). The injured has been identified as Mamta (40) who has sustained 25 per cent burn injuries.
The rest are yet to be identified, the police said.
Crime and forensic teams have been called to inspect the site, and evidence is being collected to ascertain the cause of the fire, they said, adding that further probe is underway.
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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.
