Seven injured in jackal attack in UP's Pilibhit
Pilibhit (UP), Sep 7: Seven people, including two children, were injured in a jackal attack in two villages under the Jehanabad Police Station area of the district on Saturday.
The attack occurred in Suswar and Pansoli villages of the Jehanabad Police Station area in which five men and two children aged nine and three were injured.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical care.
Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Manish Singh said some villagers earlier claimed that the attack was done by a pack of wolves but it was later confirmed that a jackal was behind it.
According to forest officials, the attack took place when the villagers were going to the fields in the morning.
On getting information about this incident, the police and administration officials and the forest department team reached the spot and investigated the matter.
The forest department is on alert in wake of the incident, said the DFO.
Local MP Jitin Prasada also spoke to the locals about the incident over phone.
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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.
