Bengaluru: Woman, lover arrested for murder of husband, sent to police custody
Bengaluru: Madanayakanahalli Police have arrested three suspects in connection with the case of a charred body of an unidentified man being found near the NICE Road at Gangondanahalli recently.
Having now identified the body to be of Yadgir-based Basavaraju (28), the police have arrested his wife Sharanamma (25), allegedly the mastermind behind the murder, her lover Veerabhadra (19) and his associate Anil, who are all daily wagers, as per a Deccan Herald report.
A senior police officer has said that Sharanamma lived with her husband in a rented house in Tigalarapalya. Veerabhadra, who worked at a construction site nearby and interacted with the couple frequently, grew close to Sharanamma and also developed a physical relationship with her. As Basavaraju objected to the relationship, however, Sharanamma planned to murder him.
On Friday, Basavaraju was asleep after consuming alcohol when Veerabhadra and Sharanamma smashed his head with a stone and strangled him with a rope. Veerabhadra also took the help of his friend Anil, who brought his car there, to dispose of the body.
After ensuring that the neighbours were asleep the trio wrapped Basavaraju’s body in old clothes, stuffed it into a sack and took it, along with a can of petrol, to Gangondanahalli in Anil’s car. At an isolated area there, they burned the body to destroy evidence.
A case of an unidentified burnt body being found had been registered at the Madanayakanahalli Police Station, but the officers who probed the case identified the victim and arrested Sharanamma, Veerabhadra and Anil late Thursday night.
The arrested trio has been sent into police custody for further probe of the case, while the car used for the crime has been confiscated by the police.
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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.
