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Woman detained after racial outburst and attack in restaurant parking lot

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 IV DeskComment(0)

Texas’s PLANO — Following a racist outburst and assault on ladies of South Asian ancestry that was caught on camera in a parking lot in a suburban Dallas neighbourhood, a woman has been arrested and could be charged with a hate crime, according to authorities.

Esmeralda Upton, 58, of Plano, was detained and charged with misdemeanour assault and making a terroristic threat, according to Plano police. She was being held in the local jail on a $10,000 bond on Thursday.

According to the statement, a hate crime investigation is also being done into the event. For Upton, the jail had no listed attorney.

The incident took place outside a restaurant in Plano on Wednesday shortly after 8 p.m. Upton was seen in a widely shared video being aggressive toward the women of Indian heritage, launching into a profanity-laced rant against them, questioning their right to be in the country, threatening to shoot them, and physically striking the woman who was filming the incident.

The footage didn’t make it apparent what, if anything, started the rage and assault.

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Supreme Court’s major decision today relates to hijab ban in Karnataka

October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 Editor

On Thursday morning at 10:30 am, two judges are anticipated to give the highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling on petitions contesting the prohibition on hijabs, or headscarves worn by some Muslim women, in schools and colleges in Karnataka. After hearing arguments for ten days, a panel of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia had reserved its decision on the appeals of the Karnataka High Court’s September 22 decision refusing to abolish the hijab prohibition. Due to Justice Gupta’s impending retirement from the bench on Sunday, a decision on these petitions was expected this week. Attorneys for the petitioners said during the hearing before the Supreme Court that allowing Muslim girls to attend class while wearing the hijab would jeopardise their education because they would quit going. They had brought up a number of issues, such as the February 5, 2022 state government order banning the wearing of clothing that disturbs equality, integrity, and public order in schools and colleges. They had also compared hijabs to the bindis or ghoongat worn by Hindus and the turbans worn by Sikhs. Additionally, some supporters have contended that the case should be heard by a five-judge constitution panel. The state’s attorneys claimed that the Karnataka government directive that caused the dispute was “religious neutral.” The state’s attorney had argued in the Supreme Court that if the government had not acted in the way it did, it would have been “guilty of dereliction of constitutional duty,” insisting that the movement in favour of wearing the hijab in educational institutions was not a “spontaneous act” by a small number of people. A group of Muslim students at the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, Karnataka, had petitioned the high court on March 15 to be allowed to wear the hijab in class, but it was denied since it is not an essential component of Islamic faith. Some Muslim females appealed the state government’s ruling from February 5, 2022, to the high court. The high court’s decision has been contested in a number of pleas in the highest court.