Shivamogga: POCSO case against youngster for sexual assault of girl at her house; youth absconding
Shivamogga: A case has been registered under the POCSO Act against a youngster aged 24 years for sexual assault of a minor girl when she was alone at home in a village of the district on Tuesday, under the pretext of asking her for water.
The youngster, who belonged to the same village, allegedly knocked on the door of the girl's house on Tuesday and, when she went into the house to get him water, followed her in and assaulted her. As the girl screamed, the young man immediately ran away from the house and is learned to be absconding.
The case in relation to the incident has been registered at the Anandapur Police Station. The police are investigating the matter and searching for the youngster. The locals, meanwhile, approached the DySP and asked for an immediate arrest of the assaulter.
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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.
