Illegal casino busted in Gurugram, 40 arrested
Gurugram (PTI): An illegally operating casino was busted near the Sakatpur area here and 40 people were arrested, police said on Sunday.
Around Rs 2,10,000 cash, 25 bottles of expensive liquor, 33 bottles of beer, 2,511 tokens and 12 packets of cards were seized from the farmhouse where the casino was operating, they said.
The police operation took place Saturday night, officials said.
Among those arrested, three people Krishna Kumar (54) of Jyoti Park colony and Surendra Kumar (57) and Manish (33) of Ramnagar colony were running the casino and illegally serving liquor, they added.
The officials said an FIR under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Excise Act has been registered at the Badshahpur police station.
"During interrogation, the accused revealed they used to visit Goa and after seeing the casinos there, they hatched a plan to set up a casino and make such arrangements. We are questioning them," said Subhash Broken, a spokesperson of Gurugram police.
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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.
