Overview
- Udaipur police arrested the IT firm’s CEO Jitesh Sisodia, executive head Shilpa and her husband Gaurav Sirohi in an alleged gang-rape inside a car, with a local court sending them to police remand.
- Investigators cite dashcam audio-video from the vehicle and a medical report noting injuries consistent with sexual assault; the complainant filed her FIR on December 23 after reviewing the recordings from the December 20–21 party night.
- In the Unnao case, the Delhi High Court suspended former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s sentence, reasoning that elected representatives are not ‘public servants’ under the relevant criminal definitions, prompting protests outside the court and petitions to the Supreme Court as the CBI says it will oppose the relief.
- In Bangladesh, Hindu youth Amrit Mondal died on December 25 after a mob attack the previous night in Rajbari; police described the case as linked to criminal activity, a narrative disputed by community members, as separate reports detail arson targeting minority homes in Chattogram.
- In Maharashtra’s municipal elections, the BJP is contesting with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar is partnering with Sharad Pawar in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, and Congress has proposed a Pune alliance with Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray’s MNS with seat-sharing talks under way, while in Uttar Pradesh’s Bagpat a husband was detained in a property-dispute homicide and police are examining documents and motive.