Attempt to murder case filed against six transgender individuals in Tumakuru over group dispute
Tumakuru: The Kora Police in Tumkuru has registered a case on Saturday accusing six transgender persons of attempting to murder a fellow community member, Anushri, after an alleged violent attack near Sorekunte gate on Friday night.
According to the complaint, Anushri was on her way home to her daughter when the accused, traveling in two autorickshaws, stopped her and assaulted her with a blade and beer bottles, as reported by The Hindu. Despite her injuries, Anushri managed to flee and seek refuge at a nearby mosque before being taken to the district hospital with the assistance of bystanders.
The police has named Asha as the prime accused, along with five others in the case. Anushri claimed the attack was linked to a dispute over a chit fund and gold. However, she stated the deeper cause was her decision to leave Asha’s ‘gharana’ or group to join another faction.
The complainant alleged that Asha’s group engaged in illegal activities, demanding members pay protection money and punishing any disobedience harshly. Anushri had threatened to report their illegal activities to the police prior to the attack, according to an NGO that supports her.
Members of the transgender community, demanding strict legal actions against the perpetrators gathered outside the Kora Police Station after the incident.
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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.
