Overview

• BJP MP Khagen Murmu suffered a head injury in Nagarakata, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited him in hospital and said the injury was not serious.
• BJP leaders held demonstrations from Kolkata to Delhi condemning the assault on party members and alleging a climate of political violence in West Bengal.
• Police and SIT inquiries into the September 26 Bareilly unrest cited planning meetings on September 19, arrested Nadeem, sought Wajid Beg, and referenced statements from Idris and Iqbal after an encounter.
• Jamaat-e-Islami publicly said Maulana Taqeer Raza is innocent and blamed the Uttar Pradesh police and government for the Bareilly violence.
• The Supreme Court bench of Justices K.V. Vishwanathan and K. Vinod Chandran acquitted a man in a 2010 Maharashtra matricide case, ruling that the prosecution failed to prove murder beyond reasonable doubt.