Overview

• Relatives say police shifted Y. Puran Kumar’s body to PGI Chandigarh for postmortem without consent, as the family withholds funeral pending action on those named in his note.
• An FIR based on IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar’s complaint names multiple senior IAS/IPS officers; DGP Shatrugjit Kapoor and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarania are on leave and IG Pushpendra Kumar’s six-member SIT is investigating.
• The Haryana IAS Association called for a fair, transparent probe into allegations of caste-based harassment and public humiliation detailed by the officer’s wife.
• Mahagathbandhan seat-sharing is reported near-final with a tentative split of RJD 135, Congress 55, VIP 18 and Left-allies among others, with roughly a dozen seats still contested ahead of a formal announcement.
• BJP leaders met in Delhi on NDA seat-sharing and candidates as political churn quickened: ex-MP Arun Kumar and his son joined JDU, former MP Ajay Nishad returned to the BJP, BJP MLA Mishri Lal Yadav announced his exit, and AIMIM said it will field about 100 candidates to build a third option in Bihar.