Cops suspect that he murdered her as a result of she rejected his advances.
Bengaluru:
The ugly homicide of a Karnataka corporator’s daughter has develop into the newest flashpoint between the Congress and the BJP. The Congress chief’s daughter was stabbed seven occasions by a former pupil of the faculty she was attending in Hubbali. Cops suspect that he murdered her as a result of she rejected his advances.
Neha Hiremath, 23, was a first-year pupil of Grasp of Pc Purposes and Fayaz Khondunaik was earlier her classmate. In response to a senior police officer, Fayaz, who stabbed her a number of occasions, claimed throughout interrogation the 2 had been in a relationship however she had been avoiding him of late.
The problem has snowballed right into a political slugfest between the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP. Whereas the ruling occasion has tried to challenge it as an incident from a private angle, the BJP has mentioned it exhibits the deterioration of legislation and order within the state.
Union Minister and Dharwad Lok Sabha BJP candidate Pralhad Joshi suspected that there was a love jihad angle behind the incident.
There’s a full deterioration of legislation and order below the Congress regime, he alleged, urging Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to cease minority appeasement politics and particular remedy to a “explicit neighborhood.” Nevertheless, Residence Minister G Parameshwara mentioned there was no “love jihad” angle as of now.
What has exacerbated the state authorities’s troubles is the lady’s father additionally calling the crime a ‘Love Jihad’ case. Niranjan Hiremath, a Congress corporator, claimed that the accused had deliberate to “entice his daughter”.
“The gang had conspired for a very long time. That they had deliberate both to entice her or to execute her. They’ve been threatening her in that backdrop. Nevertheless, the lady had not heeded to their threats,” Mr Hiremath advised the media.
“The entire state and nation witnessed what occurred to my daughter. If they are saying that it’s private, what’s private on this? Are they my relations?” he added.
Love jihad spreading, maintain your ladies: Ok’taka Cong Corporator and father of homicide sufferer pic.twitter.com/i6eXX5Jjom
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Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi additionally launched a scathing attacking assault on the Congress authorities within the state saying that the C within the occasion’s title stands for “corruption, criminality, and communal violence.”
“For any authorities, it’s a salient obligation to make sure that our kids purchase the right ethical and moral classes in colleges. Even the folks ought to have requisite consciousness on this regard,” the BJP MP advised information company ANI.
“Individuals ought to have the assumption that the legislation and equipment of a state will make sure that those that do unsuitable are delivered to e book. Nevertheless, the Congress has failed abjectly on this regard (in Karnataka),” she added.
The Congress retorted by saying that the state has the very best legislation and order and the BJP was making an attempt to impose the Governor’s rule in Karnataka.
“The BJP is making an attempt to threaten us… Karnataka has the very best legislation and order… They wish to inform voters that they’ll impose Governor’s rule. That is what R Ashoka (BJP chief and Chief of the Opposition) is making an attempt confidentially. They wish to place the state below the Governor’s rule, that is why they’re doing all this drama. However they can not do this. It is not possible,” Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar mentioned.
A big group of right-wing activists have additionally been protesting outdoors Hubballi’s Vidyanagar police station and shouting slogans. Related protests, calling for extreme punishment for the Muslim accused, have been reported in numerous different locations.
