Overview

• West Bengal officials said three suspects were held within 36 hours in the Durgapur gangrape case as the victim’s father asked Odisha’s chief minister to move her to Bhubaneswar over safety fears.
• Uttar Pradesh police reported multiple encounters in the past day, with two reward-listed suspects killed in separate incidents and several others wounded or arrested across districts.
• Aligarh police arrested alleged mastermind Pooja Shakun Pandey from Bharatpur in the Abhishek Gupta murder case and said she has been placed in judicial custody.
• BJP’s Dharmendra Pradhan announced the NDA’s Bihar seat-sharing formula—BJP and JDU 101 each, LJP(R) 29, and the parties of Jitan Ram Manjhi and Upendra Kushwaha 6 each—while Congress sources said the Mahagathbandhan has offered the party about 60 seats.
• A Quint fact-check found an edited video falsely claiming ‘vote chori’ chants at a Nitish Kumar event, concluding the audio was added and the claim was untrue.