Haveri: Partially burnt body of 17-year-old girl found
Rape and murder suspected
HAVERI: The dead body of a PU-2 student of KLE’s Gudleppa Hallikeri College has been found at a bush near Varadahalli Bridge on the National Highway 4.
The deceased has been identified as Renuka Patil (17), a resident of Mannur village in Savanur taluk. She was studying in the second PU commerce at GH College.
Renuka, who had gone to college on August 6, did not return home. Renuka's brother and sister were also studying in the Gudleppa Hallikeri College. The sister had not gone to college due to some work. Her brother was studying in Arts and returned home early because he had no classes. When Renuka did not return ever after the late evening, the family members started calling her friends and relatives. When they received negative answers, her parents filed a complaint with the Haveri rural police.
Renuka was not found even when Police and family members searched for her. But, a young woman's body was found at a bush near Varadahalli Bridge on the National Highway 4. When the police informed the parents to recognise the dead body, they broke down. Later, her grandfather went with the police and identified the body.
SP Parashuram, DySP Kumar, and Haveri rural police have visited the spot, and the investigation is on.
Rape and murder suspected
It has been suspected that while returning from college on August 6, miscreants abducted Renuka and dragged her into a bush near Varadahalli Bridge and raped her. The perpetrators later burned and murdered her to destroy evidence.
While some clues in this connection have been gathered, we have intensified the operation by creating three teams led by DySP Kumarappa, DCRB DYSP Narayana Baramani and DCIB Inspector Santosh Patil of Haveri.
Parshuram, SP
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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.
