Overview
- The Special Investigation Team filed a roughly 74,000‑page chargesheet on Sept. 23 alleging counting‑room irregularities at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation operation and naming eight accused, with CCTV footage, mobile chats, CDRs, bank records and witness statements cited as evidence.
- Police reported recent arrests in separate violent cases, including Ashish Paul in the Greater Noida hit‑and‑run that killed lawyer Neeraj Kumar Sinha, Rohit in the Buxar train killing who confessed to binding and throwing a passenger from a moving train, and Subrat Manocha in the Kanpur murder probe where evidence now points to his role as principal conspirator.
- Weather authorities raised red and orange alerts as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal moved inland, prompting flood and landslide warnings, school closures and evacuations across states such as Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand.
- Security forces are investigating a deadly shooting in Pilong village, Manipur, where police say four people were killed and suspects may have crossed from Myanmar with the KNA‑B group under suspicion but no responsibility has been confirmed.
- Political and institutional scrutiny increased as opposition leaders accused Bihar’s chief minister of breaching POCSO by sharing a victim photo, while local police pledged concrete victim support in other cases, for example Azamgarh police adopting two orphaned children and committing funds and counselling.