Maharashtra: Woman strangled to death; body concealed in sofa bed
Thane, Feb 16: The police have recovered the body of a 33-year-old woman concealed in a sofa bed at her house in Dombivili town of Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Wednesday.
The victim, Supriya Shinde, had been strangled and her head had been banged by unidentified persons on Tuesday, senior inspector Shekar Bagde of Manpada police station said.
The incident took place between 12.30 pm and 9 pm, when the woman's husband was at work, he said.
The victim had requested her neighbour to drop her son at school stating that she was unwell, and when she did not fetch the child after school, the teacher contacted the neighbour.
When the victim was not seen at her home, her husband was informed and after a frantic search, the body was found concealed in the sofa bed, the official said.
The body has been sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, he said, adding that a case under section 302 (murder) of the IPC against unidentified persons.
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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.
