PIL filed in HC against 60 media houses for videographing, harassing Hijab wearing students, teacher
Bengaluru: A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed by Abdul Mansoor, Mohammed Khalil, and Asif Ahmed before the Karnataka High Court Against more than 60 media houses seeking orders to restrain media from chasing and video graphing Hijab-wearing students and teachers who are on their way to schools and colleges.
The plea stated that media establishments provoked by some vested interests are subjecting students to humiliation and disgrace by criminalizing their faith, belief, identity, culture, etc.
"Repeated attempts are being made to polarize, divide, and to communalize the student community by injecting the venom of hate, disrespect, and vengeance which ultimately culminates into violent actions and reactions,"
"Since one month, the cameramen and reporters are seen assembling in and around premises of government colleges and schools wherever the female children and teachers are proceeding to attend their classes, they were being chased, abusing, screaming, sloganeering, targeting, demeaning, compelling to uncloth themselves which are being photographed, videographed, and being printed and telecasted around 24/7 hours with the sole intention of belittling the democratic values and cherished principles of unity in diversity," the PIL stated.
Apart from the media houses, the plea has mentioned social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp, along with search engines Google, Yahoo, and Video posting platform YouTube as respondents.
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Man arrested for keeping daughter's body at home for four months after death in Meerut
Meerut (UP) (PTI): A 72-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly keeping the body of his daughter inside their house for nearly four months after her death, officials said on Thursday.
A resident of Teli Mohalla in the Sadar Bazar police station area, Udaybhanu Biswas did not perform the last rites of his 35-year-old daughter Priyanka after her death and kept the body in a locked room of the house.
The matter came to light in April after local residents alerted police about a strong foul smell emanating from the house, they said, adding that he was formally arrested on Wednesday.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Priyanka had died due to illness on December 1, 2025. Biswas stayed in the house with the body for several days and allegedly used perfume to suppress the foul smell.
Police recovered the decomposed body from the house on April 10. The body had largely turned into a skeleton by the time it was found, sources said.
The body was sent for post-mortem examination after completion of legal formalities, they added.
According to police, Biswas is originally from West Bengal and is a retired administrative officer from the education department.
Police said he has undergone psychiatric evaluation at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Medical College and was formally arrested on Wednesday.
