Swara Bhaskar congratulates Hijab-clad Karnataka student Bushra Mateen for winning 16 Gold medals
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar on Monday, congratulated a Karnataka student for creating history at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) by bagging 16 gold medals. Bhaskar also said academic excellence and Hijab are not mutually exclusive.
Taking to her Twitter account, Swara quoted a tweet from another user who had captioned the student – Bushra Mateen’s image as “A Hijabi girl Bushra Mateen, tops VTU – Engineering University.
Swara wrote “Congratulations Bushra! Apparently academic excellence & achievement and #Hijab are not mutually exclusive! Do we need to be ‘liberated’ from our prejudices.”
Bushra Mateen, a student from SLN College of Engineering in Karnataka created history after bagging 16 gold medals from the universities for her academic accomplishments.
Congratulations Bushra! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✨✨✨
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) March 6, 2022
Apparently academic excellence & achievement and #Hijab are not mutually exclusive! Do we need to be ‘liberated’ from our prejudices 🤔 https://t.co/sGWCC5UqhF
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Expelled Cong MLA Mamkootathil gets bail in sexual assault case
Pathanamthitta(Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court on Wednesday granted bail to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in the third sexual assault case against him, in which he was arrested earlier this month.
The bail was granted by the Pathanamthitta District Sessions Court, which was considering an appeal filed by the MLA against a judicial magistrate's court that had denied him relief, stating that the allegations against him were serious and that he had "similar antecedents".
The third sexual assault case was registered against the Palakkad MLA under Sections 376 (rape) and 506(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), following a complaint lodged by a woman from Kottayam district on 8 January. He was arrested in the case on January 11 in Palakkad.
The Kerala High Court and a sessions court in Thiruvananthapuram had earlier protected the MLA from arrest in the first two sexual assault cases, which were registered based on complaints from two different women.
