Man dies after brawl, constable who took him to hospital killed in road accident
Barabanki (UP)(PTI): A man died after a brawl at an eatery in Barabanki and a police constable who had rushed him to a hospital was killed in an accident while returning, officials said on Sunday.
The constable died after his bike hit stray cattle, they said.
Two groups of students of a private university got into a fracas outside the eatery late on Saturday night. It led to a brawl in which Suyash (25) and Alok (26) were injured, a police official said.
Suyash, a former student of Sri Ramswaroop Memorial University, had visited his alma mater on Saturday with Alok to attend a cultural event there, Additional Superintendent of Police Poornendu Singh said.
"He had a rivalry with a group of students of the university. They got into an altercation at an eatery after the cultural event," he said.
The ASP said, "Suyash and Alok were rushed to a hospital in a wounded state where the former succumbed to his injuries."
Constables Raj Kumar Pandey and Jayash Ram, who took the injured to the hospital, met with an accident while returning.
"Their bike hit an animal," the police officer said.
The constables sustained severe injuries and they were rushed to a trauma centre in Lucknow where Raj Kumar Pandey died during treatment, ASP Singh said.
The police have lodged a case in this matter and initiated a probe.
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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.
