KCOCA against accused
Gauri murder case
Bengaluru, August 14: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been strengthening the case of Gauri Lankesh murder by investigating the accused under Column 3 of the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA), it is said.
SIT investigating officer MN Anucheth said on Tuesday that the Gauri Lankesh murder case was being investigated under the IPC and the Arms Act. Along with the IPC section 302, 114, 118, 120(B) and 35, and section 3 and 25 of the Arms Act, the SIT has started investigating the case under the KCOCA, he said in a press statement.
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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.
