Stray dog bites girl during sterilisation drive by MCD in Usmanpur
New Delhi (PTI): A nine-year-old girl on her way to school was hospitalised after being bitten by a stray dog when the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was conducting a sterilisation drive for street dogs in Usmanpur area, police said on Friday.
On Thursday, Sheila Devi (56), a resident of New Usmanpur, was going to drop her granddaughter at her school near MCD Flats in the northeast part of the city, police said.
Some MCD officials were carrying out a sterilisation drive for stray dogs near the school when one of the dogs suddenly came and bit the Class 4 student on her legs, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said.
New Usmanpur Police Station received a PCR call regarding the incident at around 8 am on Thursday, he said.
The girl is undergoing treatment at a hospital, Tirkey said, adding that legal action is being taken in this regard.
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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.
