Woman tonsured, paraded over alleged extra-marital affair in Bihar, husband held
Darbhanga (Bihar), Feb 18: A man has been arrested for tonsuring his wife and forcing her to walk the streets of a village in Darbhanga district on the suspicion that she was having an extramarital affair, a police officer said on Friday.
The accused, Ranvir Sada, was apprehended on Thursday after a video clip emerged on social media, in which the woman was seen walking the roads of Jhajhara village, her head tonsured and face painted black, the officer said.
Investigators were examining the veracity of the video clip, he stated.
"The local police has registered an FIR on the basis of a statement given by the victim, who had faced the ordeal on February 13. Around 20 people, including her husband and her-in-laws, have been named in the FIR. Ranvir Sada has been arrested and efforts were underway to nab the other accused in the case, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Manish Chandra Choudhary said.
Sada had claimed that his wife was having an extramarital affair, the SDPO said.
"Several people were also seen in the video humiliating the woman. All of them will be traced and arrested," he added.
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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.
