Dharmasthala: Six arrested in YouTubers assault case
Belthangady: Dharmasthala police on Saturday arrested six persons in connection with the August 6 assault on four YouTubers near Pangala Cross in Dharmasthala village.
The arrested accused have been identified as Dharmasthala residents Padmaprasad, Suhas, Guruprasad, Shashikumar, Kalander, and Chetan.
They were produced before the residence of the Belthangady magistrate on Saturday evening, where all six were granted interim bail. The court has directed them to appear before the Belthangady court on August 11.
The incident stemmed from a clash between two groups during an illegal gathering on August 6. Based on a complaint filed by Dharmasthala Sub-Inspector Samarth R. Ganiger, police registered a suo motu case at the Dharmasthala Police Station on the night of August 6 under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, Sections 189(2), 191(2), 132, 324(6), and 190, against 27 identified individuals and others.
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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.
