Overview

• Haryana Assembly will take up the Congress adjournment motion on law and order on August 26 after repeated disruptions on the session’s opening day.
• Nayab Singh Saini urged that there be no politics over 19-year-old Manisha’s death, calling her “our daughter,” and said the government is ready to answer every point in the House.
• Saini said autopsy and forensic findings showed insecticide in the body, echoing police statements about a purported suicide note and records of a pesticide purchase.
• The state has moved to transfer the probe to the CBI, transferred the Bhiwani superintendent of police, suspended five officers, and initiated a departmental inquiry following the family’s complaint.
• The chief minister contrasted his government’s record with past Congress rule, claiming faster police action as he accused the Opposition of creating controversies during the monsoon session.