Karnataka: Girl commits suicide alleging heartbreak by boyfriend, BJP activist booked under POCSO
Chikkamagaluru: A 17-year-old girl committed suicide by consuming poison in Jogikumbri village of Kalasa taluk in the district, recently, as she was dejected on being duped with a promise of love by a BJP activist.
The deceased girl is identified as Deepthi, a resident of Jogikumbri who was studying in the first year of a PU college in Kalasa.
Kudremukh Police have registered a case under POCSO Act against Nitesh of Karagadde village, an activist of the BJP as well as the Bajrang Dal, on charge of causing Deepthi’s death.
Deepthi and Nitesh are said to have been in a relationship for a few years after being introduced. Following a recent fight, however, Nitesh denied that he loved Deepthi.
The girl, distraught on learning of this, consumed insecticide on January 10 and fell severely ill on account of this. Her family members rushed her to a hospital in Kalasa, where the doctors treated Deepthi on primary level.
Deepthi was then treated for four days at the AJ Hospital in Mangaluru, but as she failed to respond to the treatment, the girl breathed her last on Saturday.
Deepthi is also said to have written a death note prior to committing suicide.
Chennegowda, Deepthi’s father, complained to the Kudremukh Police on Saturday, accusing Nitesh of leading his daughter to depression by pretending to love her, and requested the police to arrest Nitesh.
Chennegowda later approached the SP, accusing the Kudremukh Police of hesitating to register an FIR against Nitesh as the latter is a member of the BJP and the Bajrang Dal and, therefore, is influential.
The Kudremukh Police registered the POCSO case against Nitesh, after being taken to task by the police superintendent over the matter.
The BJP worker, however, is absconding currently.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
