Teen stabbed to death by man in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 9 (PTI): A 14-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed in the neck by his maternal uncle in Bengaluru, who surrendered to police three days after the incident, police said on Saturday.
The teenager, a school dropout addicted to online games, reportedly frequently quarrelled with his uncle over money to fund his gaming habit, police said.
The incident occurred on August 4 at around 5 am in Kumbarahalli, where the boy lived with his uncle, identified as Nagaprasad.
Nagaprasad, who works as a security guard, allegedly stabbed his sleeping nephew with a kitchen knife. Unable to bear the boy’s repeated demands for money, he fled the scene immediately after the attack.
Police registered a case under Section 101 (murder) at Soladevanahalli police station.
Nagaprasad surrendered to police three days later, confessing to the crime. Following his admission, police recovered the boy’s decomposed body from the scene and seized the murder weapon.
The accused told police he wandered through nearby villages after fleeing and even contemplated suicide before deciding to turn himself in.
Nagaprasad has been produced before a Bengaluru court, which remanded him in judicial custody.
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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.
