Three cattle smugglers arrested in UP
Meerut (UP) (PTI): Three suspected cattle smugglers were on Monday arrested after an encounter with police here, a senior officer said.
In the exchange of fire, two of the suspected smugglers sustained bullet injuries.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Rohit Singh Sajwan said that on a tip off that some persons were going to slaughter cows, a police team reached a forest area between village Ruhasa and Chakbandi.
The suspected smugglers opened fire leading to retaliatory action from the police, Sajwan said.
The arrested people have been identified as Junaid, Javed alias Chavanni and Shahvaz.
Illegal arms have also been recovered from the cattle smugglers, the SSP said.
An FIR has been registered against them at Daurala police station under relevant sections of the IPC.
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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.
