Overview
- The NIA has asked Interpol to help locate Dr. Muzaffar Rather, declared absconding and accused of coordinating funding, logistics and communications from Afghanistan for the Red Fort blast.
- Investigators say Rather left India in August via Dubai and maintained contact with the alleged suicide attacker, with a Red Corner Notice expected next.
- In Mira-Bhayandar, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction joined Congress to form the Mira-Bhayandar City Development Front as a united opposition intended to check BJP’s dominance.
- Shiv Sena (UBT) reported four KDMC councillors as untraceable and filed a complaint, while Thane police said no missing case was registered and indicated the councillors may have left by choice, potentially altering majority arithmetic.
- Mumbai police arrested a suspect within 12 hours in the fatal stabbing of professor Alok Kumar Singh on a local train, and Rajasthan’s Nagaur police seized about 10,000 kg of ammonium nitrate and other explosives allegedly sold for illegal mining.