UP policeman suspended for slapping woman, pressuring her to withdraw daughter's abduction case
Rampur (UP) (PTI): Students from a private school protested outside a police station here alleging that a policeman slapped the mother of a former schoolmate and pressured her to withdraw a case of kidnapping and harassing of her daughter.
Taking note of the incident, the district administration has removed a Circle Officer, Station House Officer of Milak Police Station along with two constables while the accused outpost in charge has been suspended, officials said.
The agitation near the police station caused a massive traffic jam.
The mother of the 12-year-old girl alleged some policemen, including outpost in-charge Ashok Kumar, reached her house on Tuesday and manhandled her and her daughter.
"He (policeman) slapped me two-three times and my clothes got torn," she said, adding that their family was being pressured to withdraw the case.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Sansar Singh said that the woman on Tuesday registered a case against two teenagers under IPC sections 354 (criminal force with intent to outrage modesty) and 363 (kidnapping) after the accused allegedly took her daughter forcibly on their bike.
He said that both the accused have been detained and a detailed probe is on in the matter.
"We have removed the SHO, Circle Officer, and two constables while the police outpost in charge Ashok Kumar has been suspended," he said.
The additional district magistrate will probe the matter and if it is found that the woman was manhandled, FIRs will be registered against the guilty, he said.
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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.
