Rajan is currently lodged in a high-security cell in Jail No. 2 of Tihar Jail. While this photograph dispels rumours of his death during Covid pandemic or of ill-health, its release at this stage has also rekindled fears of an attack on him in jail, leaving the intelligence agencies alarmed.

The weather department recorded a temperature increase of four to six degrees Celsius above normal in northern, southern, and eastern states over the past week

The accused, who is a drug addict and also the victim’s neighbour, killed the girl and wrapped her body in a dirty quilt and dumped it in a ramshackle house