Overview

• Israeli Foreign Ministry shared images contrasting an emaciated hostage with a well-fed Hamas captor to argue Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is manufactured
• In Bengaluru, a special court sentenced former MP Prajwal Revanna to life imprisonment with a ₹5 lakh fine for raping a domestic worker
• A Special NIA Court acquitted Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit and seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast after finding no explosive materials and noting that ‘Abhinav Bharat’ remains unbanned
• BJP MP Pragya Thakur publicly alleged ATS officers tortured her into naming senior leaders, including Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath, during her detention in the Malegaon case
• Indian security forces are probing a black-magic child sacrifice by a Deoria policeman, stone-pelting at a Mahavir procession in Muzaffarpur, an armed ambush on a Gurugram head constable, the fatal shooting of a CRPF jawan in Sonepat, and a Ganga boat capsize in Sahibganj that left three passengers missing