Man in Chikkamagaluru surrenders to police after killing wife with hammer
Chikkamagaluru: A 34-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by husband at the Christian Colony in town, after which the husband surrendered to the Town Police Station, confessing before the police officers that he had killed his wife.
The victim has been identified as 34-year-old Shamabanu, who was clubbed to death using a hammer by her husband Shabbir Ahmed.
Ahmed, whose first wife had died due to COVID-19, married Shamabanu last year. The couple had recently been to Goa for a week-long trip to Goa, but a day after they returned, Ahmed killed his wife.
A case has been registered at the Town Police Station. The Town Police officers and Chikmagaluru District Superintendent of Police Vikram Amte visited Ahmed's house to conduct an investigation.
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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.
