The Lucknow bench of the High Court, comprising Justice AR Masoodi and Justice Ajay Kumar Srivastava, was hearing a petition filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.

Saurabh Rajput was brutally murdered allegedly by his wife and her lover in Meerut, after which the duo were arrested.

Maharashtra’s junior home minister, Yogesh Kadam, announced that the government will investigate comedian Kunal Kamra’s call recordings and bank statements after he called deputy CM Eknath Shinde a ‘gaddar’ during a Mumbai show. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Nirupam claimed Uddhav Sena funded Kamra’s show and issued a warning to the comedian while party workers vandalized the hotel’s venue in response.