Arif murder case: Car used by suspects seized by Vitla Police
Vitla: Police investigating the murder of rowdy-sheeter Arif, also known as ‘Tablet Arif’, have seized a car suspected to have been used by the attackers.
Arif was killed by unidentified assailants on the Thokkottu flyover early Friday morning. According to initial findings, the suspects had been following him and allegedly rammed his motorcycle, causing him to fall on the road. He was then attacked and hacked to death using lethal weapons.
After the incident, the accused fled the spot. During the course of the investigation, police received information about an abandoned car at Budoli, which falls under the Vitla Police Station limits.
Acting on the tip-off, a police team led by Station House Officer Prakash Devadiga rushed to the location and seized the vehicle believed to have been used in the crime.
Police said further investigation is underway to identify and trace the accused.
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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.
