Overview

• A powerful blast on Pakistan’s Jaffar Express in Balochistan’s Mastung derailed coaches and trapped passengers, with security forces and local teams conducting ongoing rescue and recovery operations.
• In Kalyan, Maharashtra, police arrested seven of eight suspects in the gang-rape of a minor, registered an FIR under POCSO and gang-rape provisions, and secured police custody for the accused until 30 September as one suspect remains at large.
• In separate homicide cases, a Kollam husband allegedly slit his wife’s throat before confessing on Facebook Live and surrendering as police filed a murder case and seized phones, while in Mumbai a son and a business partner were held over a contract killing of a 70-year-old businessman, with a hired assailant confessing and a second attacker being traced.
• Shepherds in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara rescued a 10–12-day-old newborn found under stones with a rock glued in the mouth; the infant is under treatment with improving condition and police have registered a case and opened an investigation.
• Transport and safety updates include a 13-year-old Afghan stowaway surviving in an aircraft landing gear from Kabul to Delhi leading to tighter security calls, heavy rain in Kolkata flooding tracks and halting metro operations with one electrocution death reported, and India’s Barren Island showing minor eruptions as the Navy and GSI continue monitoring.