Shivamogga: Four people booked for allegedly trying to rape woman travelling with her ill husband
Shivamogga: In a case of attempted rape on a woman, Shivamogga Police have booked four people for allegedly trying to rape a woman while she was traveling with her ailing husband here in Theerthahalli Taluk.
According to the reports, the woman was traveling back to her village accompanied by her ill husband after visiting the medical facility in Theerthahalli town when two men assaulted them and tried to rape her.
All the accused have been identified as residents of Devaragudi village here.
The woman was allegedly dragged into a rubber plantation after her husband was assaulted and rape was attempted on her. Hearing the screams of the woman, her injured husband who had fallen unconscious reportedly got up and called for help, the complainant added
Alarmed by the calls for help and screams the accused escaped from the crime scene, the complaint stated.
A case in this regard has been registered and further investigations are underway.
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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.
