Overview

• Tripura police registered abetment-of-suicide in the Mirza case, with the chief minister announcing four arrests and an assistant sub-inspector suspended for negligence as opposition parties allege shielding of accused.
• In Tripura, the victim’s husband accused three men, including a local MLA’s nephew, of assaulting the couple before her death, an allegation under investigation amid a government-ordered probe.
• Kanpur police arrested Suraj Kumar Uttam and an accomplice after call records, location data and a photo of a suitcase on his phone supported a confession, as searches continue in the Yamuna for the victim’s body.
• In Mumbai’s Kandivali, Charkop police arrested a labourer accused of strangling his wife during a dispute over money, with their minor son citing the killing in his statement to officers.
• Uttar Pradesh reported multiple separate cases, including a father in Ghaziabad-Dadri who confessed to slitting his wife’s throat in front of their children, a Gautam Buddha Nagar stabbing arrest, a Gonda arrest over the deaths of a woman and her father, and a Saharanpur suicide linked to a boyfriend’s killing under probe.