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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday questioned Lieutenant Colonel Purohit, an accused in the Malegaon Blast case of 2008 and Hindu militant on why he had attended the conspiracy meetings which discussed plans to conduct the blasts and what steps he took to prevent the blasts after he attended the meetings, reported legal website Bar and Bench.

In the early hours of 9 February 2013, Mohammed Afzal Guru was secretively hanged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi after 12 years in solitary confinement in connection with a deadly attack on India’s parliament in 2001. Guru's body was interred in Tihar Jail and his wife and son were not informed.

Talking about the contentious new farm laws, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the farmers will do all the hard work and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will take everything away from them.

Raids were also conducted at the residences of the website’s Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and Editor Pranjal.

Bhim Army chief and Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad announced he will gherao the Parliament on 7 March against Narendra Modi government’s policy of lateral entry in bureaucracy and called it a violation of constitutional rights.

Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu was arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell on Tuesday morning for taking part in protests against Narendra Modi government's new agri laws on Republic Day in capital city Delhi.

Taking suo moto notice of a news published in a section of media highlighting the matter of Dalit labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes on Monday asked the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to intervene in the matter to ensure relief of Kaur at the earliest.

The Maharashtra government on Monday said it will conduct a probe into allegations that some celebrities were pressurised recently to issue tweets in connection with the ongoing farmers agitation.

PDP MP Mohammad Mir Fayaz said the government claims normalcy has returned to the region, asking, "If that is true, why not bring a Bill to restore Statehood, instead of this Bill?"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday made an appeal to protesting farmers to end their agitation against the BJP government's new farm laws.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said the Central Government's conspiracy against farmers has strengthened their protest against the newly-enacted farm laws.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked the father and family members of the 11th class student who was killed by Indian forces in Srinagar on 30 December 2020, under the draconian UAPA for organising a protest where they demanded the return of the body of minor, reported the Kashmir Walla.