Bengaluru: 5-year-old dies after teenager accidentally runs car over him
Bengaluru, May 12: A five-year-old boy was killed and another boy of the same age was injured in a freak accident involving a car, with a youth on its driver's seat, here on Sunday, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Aarav.
The incident occurred when the kids were playing in front of their house in Murugeshpalya here, earlier today.
The accused, who is said to be around 18 years of age, was cleaning the car outside his house, and hit the accelerator accidentally after starting the vehicle.
The car moved swiftly with a force, knocking down several vehicles parked on the road, and also the kids who were playing, severely injuring them.
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Neighbours rushed and helped shifting the kids to the hospital, but Aarav couldn't make it and died before reaching there. While the other boy, who has sustained injuries and a fracture, is undergoing treatment, police sources said.
Jeevan Bhima Nagar Traffic Police have detained the accused youth. They have registered a case and further investigation are on, police sources added.
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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.
