Ramesh Maheshwari, missing from Muru village in Nakhatrana, Gujarat, was found murdered and dismembered. Police allege his friend Kishore killed him after a dispute over a woman.

A six-year-old girl in Rajkot was brutally attacked after an attempted rape, sparking outrage and a police manhunt that led to the arrest of a 35-year-old farm labourer from Dahod.

As Pakistan’s powerful Asim Munir faces intense criticism at home and abroad for what many describe as an unconstitutional and unreasonable concentration of authority, a Pakistani politician has issued a dramatic public appeal to PM Narendra Modi.