Overview

• Uttar Pradesh officials razed the 105-year-old shrine of Fagu Shah on government grazing land after declaring it an illegal occupation.
• Patna Police solved lawyer Jitendra Mehta’s murder within 24 hours, arresting eight suspects including the victim’s daughter’s partner.
• Noida Expressway police dismantled a cyber fraud ring by arresting 12 operators of a fake US loan call center in JP Cosmos Society.
• A joint CRPF-district police operation in Bokaro killed Maoist Kunwar Manjhi, who carried a ₹5 lakh bounty, while a CRPF jawan was killed in action.
• UP ATS is probing an international religious conversion syndicate led by ‘Chhangur Baba,’ while authorities continue investigations into a daylight shooting at Patna’s Paras Hospital and a superstition-driven child sacrifice in Chhattisgarh.