Overview
- Noida police booked two developers for non-intentional homicide after 27-year-old Yuvraj Mehta’s car plunged into a water-filled construction pit, as the Noida Authority terminated a junior traffic engineer and ordered safety reviews.
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said no temple or idol was damaged in Varanasi’s Manikarnika redevelopment and that fallen sculptures were secured for restoration, even as Pal community protests over an Ahilyabai Holkar statue led to police detentions.
- Varanasi police said minimal force was used and issued notices to politicians over allegedly misleading posts on the ghat works, including AI-generated content flagged by officials.
- At Prayagraj’s Magh Mela, Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand accused authorities of breaking tradition after his palanquin was stopped at the Sangam, while police cited crowd safety and asked him to proceed on foot.
- Jhansi police arrested retired railway worker Ram Singh, who described a premeditated plan to kill his live-in partner and destroy evidence, as Bijnor officers opened a case into a complaint alleging the sexual assault of a 17-year-old by a village head’s husband.