Overview

• Chandigarh Police set up a six‑member SIT led by IG Pushpendra Kumar after IPS Y Puran Kumar’s suicide note alleged caste‑based harassment and named senior officers, with Haryana DGP Shatrugjit Kapoor and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarania sent on leave.
• Puran Kumar’s family refused a postmortem and alleged the body was moved without consent, as the state named Surinder Singh Bhoria the new Rohtak SP and officials pledged an impartial investigation under abetment and SC/ST provisions.
• Mahagathbandhan negotiators neared a Bihar seat‑sharing deal, with sources indicating roughly 135 seats for RJD and about 55 for Congress, though around a dozen constituencies remain unresolved.
• NDA leaders met in Delhi to finalise their Bihar formula, with reports of Jitan Ram Manjhi dissatisfied over an offer of 7–8 seats against his demand for 15, LJP(R) seeking a larger share, and leaders hinting at announcements on Sunday.
• Separate investigations advanced as a Tennessee munitions‑plant explosion left 19 unaccounted for, Bengal police arrested three in the Durgapur MBBS student gang‑rape case with two suspects at large, and the government said the MEA had no role in an Afghan minister’s presser that excluded women journalists.