Rahul Gandhi was acquitted by a court in Uttar Pradesh in a criminal defamation case for his 2018 remarks referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah as a “murder accused”. The case was filed on a complaint by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader.
Gandhi had said that while the BJP claimed to believe in clean politics, its president was a “murder accused”, apparently referring to the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh case. Shah was the BJP’s national president at the time.
In 2014, a special court in Mumbai discharged Shah in the case concerning the alleged extra-judicial killing of Sheikh. Read on.
Several students of Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi were detained by the police as protests continued on the campus to demand time-bound elections to the students’ union. Earlier in the day, the university administration announced that student union elections would be held within 15 days of the union’s constitution being approved.
However, students said the administration had not addressed all their demands. They also alleged that they had been pressured into signing the agreement early in the morning.
Two students, Ebin Basil and Rehan Khan, continued their hunger strike on the 15th day over the lack of clarity in the university’s order. Read on.
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