Overview

• Delhi Police and central agencies are reconstructing accused Rajeshbhai Khimji’s Rajkot-to-Delhi movements in the attack on CM Rekha Gupta, with his phone sent to forensics to recover deleted data and call records.
• Protective measures around the chief minister have been overhauled, including a CRPF security review, deployment at future public hearings, CCTV repositioning to eliminate blind spots, and Z-plus cover.
• A Mumbai special court released NCP (Sharad Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar on a personal bond and flagged the EOW’s closure report in the MSCB predicate case, even as the ED’s chargesheet stands and the agency contests the closure.
• The court will begin hearing the EOW closure report on September 18, with the ED matter next listed for October 8, leaving the legal tussle over the predicate offence and ED’s case unresolved.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated projects worth over ₹12,000 crore in Bihar as part of a wider ₹18,200 crore slate and addressed a rally in Gaya, where two RJD MLAs appeared on stage, intensifying defection speculation.