Overview

• Special Judge S.R. Navandar released the NCP MLA on bond and a pledge to attend proceedings, noting the Mumbai Police EOW has filed a C‑summary in the underlying MSCB case.
• The court set consideration of the EOW closure report to begin on September 18 and adjourned the ED matter to October 8, after the agency had already filed a chargesheet against Pawar and Baramati Agro.
• The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its decision on the August 11 directive to remove Delhi‑NCR stray dogs to shelters after reserving judgment on August 14.
• In a separate hearing on Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision, the Court questioned political parties for filing no objections even as the Election Commission posted booth‑wise lists of roughly 65 lakh excluded names.
• After the Meerut toll‑plaza assault on army jawan Kapil Panwar, NHAI fined the operator ₹20 lakh, forfeited ₹3.7 crore in security and blacklisted it for a year, while police reported eight arrests; in Pratapgarh, block head Sushil Singh was booked under the NDPS Act with 34.10 grams of MD recovered.