Man hacked to death, police open fire on accused in Hubballi

Vartha Bharati | 28-01-2025 | 19:48:00 IST

Akash Valmiki, Yallappa Koti, Abhishek Shiroor and Vinod Ambigera (L-R)

Hubballi (Karnataka), Jan 28 (PTI): A 24-year-old man was brutally assaulted and killed by a group in the parking area of a bar here, police said on Tuesday.

Three of the accused arrested by the police attempted to escape and the cops opened fire on them. In the process they sustained injuries, they added.

Three of the accused -- Abhishek Shiroor, Vinod Ambigera and Yallappa Koti, residents of Anandnagar -- have been arrested in connection with the murder that occurred in Vidyanagar on Monday midnight, they said.

Akash Valmiki, a resident of Indraprastha Nagar, was assaulted and stabbed with a knife, police said, adding the exact reason for the murder is being investigated.

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According to police, around seven people are involved in the crime. Three among them were the assailants while two others were tasked with informing the movement of the victim to the assailants.

The three offenders were caught on Tuesday morning near the railway station and they led the police team to another place where possibly other offenders were hiding.

"However, after coming to the place, taking advantage of the darkness around 5:45 am, they (accused) assaulted police officials and tried to escape. In the bid to catch them, our team fired in the air two or three rounds but when they proceeded to escape, they had to be detained with minimal use of force. So, two of our Sub Inspectors fired five rounds at the accused and in the process, three of the accused sustained injuries," a senior police officer said.

The arrested accused have been admitted to hospital for treatment, he said.

"A case has been registered at Vidyanagar Police Station in this regard and the investigation is on," he added.

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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka

13-05-2026 ¦ 13-05-2026 IST

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.