Unidentified woman's body found stuffed in sack in UP's Bareilly; police suspect murder
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): The body of an unidentified woman, believed to have been murdered, was found stuffed in a sack and dumped in bushes in the Faridpur police station area here in Bareilly district, officials said on Tuesday.
Police said passersby alerted them on Monday afternoon after spotting dogs dragging a partially decomposed body out of the bushes near Simra Boripur village. Investigators said the woman's face was severely disfigured, making identification difficult.
While locals claimed acid may have been used to hinder her identification, police suspect the face turned black due to advanced decomposition.
Faridpur police station in-charge Radheshyam said the body is estimated to be between 10 and 15 days old. "Most parts of the body had decomposed, and a foul smell was emanating. The woman was wearing a sweater, a sari, and metal bangles. Identification efforts are underway based on these clues," he said.
The woman's body was found with the upper portion, from head to waist, inside the sack, and the legs lying outside, suggesting she was killed before being dumped in the bushes.
Police said that a post-mortem examination is scheduled for Tuesday to determine the exact cause of death. Further investigation into the matter is ongoing, they added.
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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.
