Two persons were arrested on Thursday after a woman in Karnataka's Hangal town in Haveri district subjected to moral policing released a video in which she claimed that she was "repeatedly gang-raped" by the vigilantes, an official .
It is specious to gauge the political mood of a country as diverse and large as India from the results of the bypolls of 29 Assembly and three Lok Sabha seats. The results, however, are not good news for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s state governments in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana – both of which have witnessed farmers' agitations in the recent past.
The Congress sprang a surprise victory in Himachal Pradesh today, wresting two BJP seats in the state and one in Karnataka as votes were counted for 29 assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats.