Gold jewellery, mobile phones worth Rs 3.33 lakh stolen at Panambur beach in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: An FIR has been registered at the Panambur Police Station after a woman alleged that her gold jewellery and mobile phones were stolen while she was swimming at Panambur Beach.
According to the complaint, filed by 24-year-old Swati Nandipalli, she had visited Mangaluru along with her friend Rohith Vemmaletti for a trip. On November 24, after breakfast, the duo went to Panambur Beach, where they decided to go for a swim, as reported by Deccan Herald.
Before entering the water, Nandipalli placed her gold jewellery, including a 12-gram chain, a 2-gram locket, two 2-gram rings, 4-gram earrings, as well as two mobile phones, one worth around Rs 18,000 and the other belonging to Rohith, valued at around Rs 85,000, in a black bag on the beach.
Upon returning from their swim, they found the bag missing. Police later reviewed CCTV footage from the beach area, which captured a man stealing the bag.
Nandipalli reported that the stolen gold jewellery weighed a total of 22 grams and was valued at approximately Rs 2.30 lakh. The total value of the stolen items, including the two mobile phones, was estimated at Rs 3.33 lakh, added the report.
Further investigations into the incident are currently underway.
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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.
