Bengaluru: Six police personnel suspended for not wearing masks, violating COVID-19 guidelines
Bengaluru: Six police personnel have been suspended for allegedly violating the government guidelines amidst COVID-19 pandemic and not wearing masks. They are also said to have violated the physical distancing.
Jalahalli Traffic Police Station’s ASI Manjunathayya, Head Constable Nagaraj, Constables Padmanath, Madhusudhan, Vishwanath and lady constable Sujana have been identified as the suspended police personnel.
The suspension orders were issued by the DCP Traffic West Division, Dr. Soumya Lata.
The six personnel were on August 11, deployed at the service under the Gangammagudi Police Station limits, and were instructed to follow COVID-19 guidelines while on duty. However, the six personnel violating the orders and physical distancing and not wearing the mask gathered at a park near a junction here.
Taking note of the incident, DCP Soumya Lata initiated the action against the personnel in question and issued their suspension orders.
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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.
