Officers suspended over RCB stampede incident reassigned to new posts
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has issued orders reassigning three senior police officers who were previously suspended in connection with the June 4 stampede incident near the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) victory celebration.
The state government has formally revoked their suspension orders and reinstated them to active service, as per the latest notification issued on Thursday.
According to the order, former Bengaluru City Police Commissioner B Dayananda, former DCP of the Central Division Shekhar H Tekkannavar, and former Additional Commissioner of Police Vikash Kumar Vikash have now been posted to new roles.
B. Dayananda has been appointed as the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Prisons and Correctional Services.
Shekhar H Tekkannavar has been posted as Superintendent of Police in the Intelligence Division, while Vikash Kumar Vikash will serve as Inspector General of Police (IGP) in the Internal Security Division.
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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.
