Illegal stock of e-cigarettes in Talapady: Ullal Police arrest one, seize items worth Rs 37,000
Ullal: In an operation conducted in Talapady village on Wednesday night, Ullal Police arrested a man who had illegally stocked e-cigarettes in white sacks outside a house and also seized the sacks.
The arrested man is identified as Nawaz.
The police team, led by Ullal Police Station Sub-inspector Siddappa Naranoora, reportedly conducted the raid on Wednesday night, on getting information from reliable sources that e-cigarettes had been stored illegally at a house in Talapady.
The police officer and personnel are learned to have confiscated e-cigarettes manufactured by various companies and said to be worth Rs 37,000. Nawaz had accumulated the e-cigarettes without permit and was attempting to sell tm, the police officers have said.
A case has been filed against the accused by the police officers, who are continuing the investigation further.
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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.
