Two Army officers assaulted, female friend raped in Indore district
Indore: Two Indian Army officers were assaulted, and one of their female friends was allegedly raped by unidentified attackers during a picnic near the Mhow-Mandleshwar road in Indore district on Wednesday, as per police reports.
The officers, aged 23 and 24, were attending a Young Officers (YO) course at the Infantry School in Mhow cantonment town. On Tuesday, they visited the picnic spot with two female friends. At around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, a group of 6-7 men attacked one of the officers and a woman who were seated in a car.
One of the attackers held the victims at gunpoint and demanded a ransom of ₹10 lakh from the other officer, who managed to alert his seniors. While the police were informed, the attackers had fled by the time authorities arrived. Medical reports confirmed that one of the women had been raped.
A case has been filed under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Arms Act. Six suspects have been identified, and two individuals have been detained, one of whom has a prior case of loot registered against him.
Police continue to investigate the incident.
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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.
