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Opposition leaders lined up on Friday to condemn the detention of Abhijeet Dipke for carrying the national flag. In Lucknow, the Defence Minister said Congress and its allies were using young people to spread anarchy.
About 150 people were held in central Delhi on Friday evening. Central Park stayed locked behind a human chain of police, and small groups with the Tricolour marched round the inner circle before being dispersed.
Booth-level officers have been told to reverify every elector left out of the draft published on 31 August, after complaints that living voters at their own addresses were struck off.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant issued show-cause notices on the Supreme Court Bar Association's plea but excused both men from appearing in person. "May better sense prevail," the CJI said.
The journalist says the case is a counterblast to her complaint that ACP Vivek Bhagat sexually harassed her at a protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. The Supreme Court has already barred coercive action against her.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside the Ministry of External Affairs' refusal of political clearance for the Chief Minister's France visit. The Centre had cited threats to his security.
Senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia mentioned the application a day after the court refused to act on his oral complaint. The bench said it would examine the matter later this month.
Hours before the CJP's flag protest, traders asked the Supreme Court to step in over the shutdown of Central Park. The bench noted that the Delhi High Court is already hearing a similar case.
Siddharth Luthra told the court the 82-year-old former Keralam chief minister faces possible arrest in the CMRL-Exalogic case. Otherwise the plea will come up on 26 October.
The FRRO told the US citizen and OCI cardholder to leave by 28 October after he joined a Mumbai protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Abhijeet Dipke wants supporters at Central Park at 5 pm on Friday. Delhi Police have told the High Court they will take every measure the law allows, and barricades are already up on the Outer Circle.
Friday was polling day for 11 biennial seats and a Bengal bypoll. With no contest anywhere, the BJP takes 10 seats, the SP two, and the BSP loses its last UP member in the House.
Graduates and teachers in Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati vote on 23 October. The Shiv Sena leader said the opposition was criticising relief it had asked for.
The Trinamool MP condemned the couple's detention at India Gate. Ankita's father has given the Centre 24 hours to put Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor on hold.
The Congress student wing says a woman police officer assaulted its women members and that senior officers refused to register a case. Police have not responded.
R Venkataramani called their posts on Chief Justice Surya Kant 'prima-facie scandalous'. Wagle has apologised and deleted his post; Raut has not responded.
The lawyer spoke at a Press Club meeting with the CJP's Abhijeet Dipke, where Prakash Raj accused the poll machinery of quietly erasing Muslim voters through Form 7.
The 2013-batch officer, who quit the service last month, may contest Mirzapur Sadar. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, the local MP, says the voters will answer her.
A Palika Bazar vendor wants the CJP's Friday flag gathering stopped. Police cited 15 lakh traders and promised 'all possible measures under the law'.
A plea objects to Monday's INDIA bloc march to the court and to a social media post against the Chief Justice. Akhilesh Yadav and others have also been served notice.
The Chief Justice said a committee to look into the complaints from the Delhi protests should be made up mostly or wholly of women. The government denied seizing reporters' phones.
The court issued notice to the Centre and Delhi Police on the petitions over the crackdown on the anti-CEC protests, and appealed to lawyers to stop filing new ones.
Notice went to the Election Commission and all three commissioners. The bench tagged the plea with the pending SIR cases and said its notice to one petitioner was provisional.
The Samajwadi Party's state president accused the Chief Minister of breaking the model code to sway the vote for 11 Council seats, and sought house arrest for both deputy chief ministers.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari seized on remarks by Neha Bora, a student leader who has been at the forefront of the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner.
DMRC says only 45 of 303 stations were shut on 10 October. Journalists and a lawyer have filed fresh pleas before Thursday's hearing on the detentions.
The former Vice-President, who resigned in July 2025, is on the guest list for Mohan Bhagwat's address in Nagpur on 20 October, the close of the Sangh's centenary year.
Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's council of ministers joined the Union Cabinet and other BJP-led states in marking the milestone, crediting the Prime Minister with progress on water, power and investment.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi joined the couple, who want the BJP leader's appointment held back until the CBI finishes its inquiry into their daughter's murder. Gautam denies any role.
Jairam Ramesh put three questions to the Home Minister about detections, deletions and deportations. J P Nadda replied that the crores of names flagged in draft rolls were never called infiltrators.
The AIMIM chief says election commissioners' internal objections were never placed before the court. Separately, the bench advanced a plea on deleted Delhi voters to 28 October.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to Tihar for five days after entering Jantar Mantar with the national flag. Leaders from the Congress, TMC, AAP, DMK and the Left closed ranks behind them.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder wants supporters with flags at Central Park on Friday evening to protest the jailing of two of its leaders. On his return from Nagpur, a group booed him at the airport.
Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the state was treating citizens as enemies by refusing processions. The RSS wants to march on 18 October or later dates.
The Commission said it could not trace the 2023 recording at the centre of a Karnataka seat decided by a recount. The court warned it would draw an adverse inference.
Kiren Rijiju and Himanta Biswa Sarma seized on a short video from Monday's INDIA bloc march. DK Shivakumar said Gandhi was only worried about his safety.
Patil and two supporters are accused of trying to strike 198 Muslim voters off the rolls during the SIR. The court cited an earlier order in similar cases and will hear the matter on 29 October.
The Deputy Chief Minister's NCP panel beat a BJP-backed rival and a Sharad Pawar-camp slate in the first big cooperative contest since Ajit Pawar's death.
In his first remarks on the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner, the Home Minister said the Congress should look at its own record instead of blaming the SIR. Jairam Ramesh hit back within hours.
Opposition parties, student groups and activists met a day after the Supreme Court march. They gave no dates but said the campaign would go on until Gyanesh Kumar quits.
The four quit and joined the TVK on the same day in May. The court found the resignations genuine but told the Speaker to finish disqualification cases against them within two months.
Barricades and central forces held the Rajabazar to Park Circus march at its starting point. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had said it would not be allowed to move a single step.
Detention and contempt cases over the Delhi protests were put off to Thursday as a judge was unwell. The Chief Justice said police would have to explain the journalists' allegations.
A BJP worker says calling the Prime Minister a 'Commander-in-Thief' defamed party members. The Bombay High Court had refused to quash the case in September.
A Delhi magistrate's court remanded the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders for five days on Wednesday, a day after they climbed the locked gate of the de-notified protest site.
The court will hear pleas on Thursday over Monday night's gathering in its premises. Police sources now count four FIRs over the march, and a separate contempt plea targets Congress leaders.
The AIMIM chief told Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh that backing the Samajwadi Party had cost them, and said the 2027 contest would be "99 vs 1".
Raj Thackeray's party also wants the SIR scrapped in Maharashtra and a return to ballot papers. Mumbai Police have booked Aaditya and Amit Thackeray over Sunday's protest at Shivaji Park.
Om Prakash Mathur shifts from Sikkim to Keralam. Sudha Yadav goes to Karnataka, Dhal Singh Bisen to Uttarakhand, Braj Mohan Ram to Odisha and Dushyant Gautam to Sikkim.
Ram Pukar Sinha is contesting the Saran teachers' seat in the Bihar Legislative Council as an independent against the JD(U)'s Anand Pushkar. Three of the party's four MLAs attended his nomination.
Yogi Adityanath, Anurag Thakur, Devendra Fadnavis and Himanta Biswa Sarma accused the opposition of attacking constitutional institutions as the INDIA bloc marched towards the Supreme Court.
JNU dismissed the Inner Manipur MP from his professorship after 11 students complained of harassment, and police have filed an FIR. He denies the charges and calls it a witch hunt.
The Bar, two journalists' groups and a Rajya Sabha MP have filed fresh petitions. The Chief Justice said lawyers may join peaceful protests and listed the matters for Tuesday.
The Keralam Congress reacted on X to Chief Justice Surya Kant's remark that the Delhi protests were a law and order matter. The post was later taken down, and the BJP called it an attack on the judiciary.
The Bihar SIR judgment came before the new voter form existed, the bench said. It issued notice on a petition alleging the CEC took decisions without his two colleagues.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan's motion, backed by the Left and opposed by the BJP's three MLAs, cites the SIR and wants the Chief Justice on the panel that picks election commissioners.
Police halted the opposition march on Bhagwan Dass Road, short of the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi and 10 other leaders filed a writ petition against the Election Commission and its three commissioners.
If revised rolls are not out when polls are notified, the existing rolls apply, the court said. In Bengal, about 1.70 lakh appeals by deleted voters are pending before Kolkata and Howrah civic polls.
The MLAs voted for the TVK government against their party's whip and were later pardoned by the AIADMK. The court said a House member must pursue such cases, and left the law open.
Police held thousands, by most counts, as they blocked a march against CEC Gyanesh Kumar on 10 October. At a Sunday sitting, the court said peaceful protesters cannot be held except by law.
The Congress leader and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met for about an hour at Vijay's home. Neither side has said what was discussed, and Gandhi went on to attack the Centre at a student event.
Manipur, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh complete their terms between March and May 2027. The census count in four of them has been brought forward to December, ahead of the polls.
The Indian Express reported two Election Commissioners objected at least 14 times to SIR decisions. The ECI says differing views are routine and its decisions were unanimous.
Maharashtra lost the most names and Delhi the largest share. The Election Commission says these are not final deletions; opposition parties allege disenfranchisement.
The BJP won Nagaon, Nandigram and Rejinagar, TVK held both Tamil Nadu seats and AINRC took Thattanchavady in the 6 October bypolls, counted on 9 October.
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