Mangaluru Airport hoax bomb threat call: Accused booked under UAPA
Mangaluru: Police on Thursday booked Vasanth (33), arrested accused in connection with the bomb hoax threat call made to Mangaluru Airport on Wednesday has been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
A case has been registered against the accused at Bajpe Police Station under IPC Section 505 B (Intimidation of the Public), 507 (Intimidation by Anonymous Communication), UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act), 3(1) (d) (Threat to Civil Aviation).
The accused has been taken into police custody for COVID test. After the test returns negative, the accused would be presented in court wherein the police is expected to seek custody of the accused for further investigations.
On Wednesday, former director of Mangaluru Airport had received a hoax threat call informing about a bomb at the airport. A search operation was carried at the airport following the call but nothing suspicious was found. Police had initiated action in this regard on Wednesday afternoon. Later, the accused was arrested at Udupi.
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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.
