Overview

• Delhi Police arrested Rajeshbhai Khimji in the assault on CM Rekha Gupta, sent his phone for forensic recovery, traced his Rajkot-to-Delhi movements, and tightened protection with a CRPF review, Z-plus cover for the CM, and revised entry and CCTV placements.
• The Union Home Ministry appointed 1992-batch IPS officer Satish Golcha as Delhi Police commissioner within a day of the incident after a spate of serious crimes including the attack on the chief minister.
• A Mumbai special court granted relief to MLA Rohit Pawar in the MSCB case, noting the EOW’s C-summary on the predicate offence, with hearings on the closure set to begin 18 September and the ED matter next listed on 8 October.
• Police actions elsewhere included the encounter arrest of a suspected gunman in the Elvish Yadav house-firing case in Faridabad, demolition of an alleged gangster’s three-storey mansion in Bhopal over conversion, blackmail and illegal-arms allegations, and an Indore case after a woman said she jumped from a third floor to escape an assault by a man using an alias.
• Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced immediate negotiations to secure the release of hostages in Gaza and to pursue ending the war under conditions acceptable to Israel.