The Allahabad High Court quashed the preventive detention of 25-year-old Aakriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act. The Delhi University graduate has been in jail for nearly five months in connection with the workers’ protest in Noida.The court held that she was detained by the Uttar Pradesh government based on a “concocted story”. The Noida authorities were directed to pay Chaudhary Rs 5 lakh as compensation.However, she will remain in jail as she is yet to secure bail in other cases registered in connection with the April protests. Read on.Fact check: Despite official denial, viral video showing police beating women workers is from Noida, reported Ayush TiwariFormer civil servant Ashish Joshi was picked up by men in plain clothes, purportedly Delhi Police personnel, and taken in for questioning about an X post he had made about Home Minister Amit Shah, alleged Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit. Joshi said in social media post just before 7.30 pm that the Special Cell of the Delhi Police had dropped him home.Dikshit said that a friend who was with Joshi when he was asked to accompany the officers to the Special Cell said this concerned a tweet the retired bureaucrat had posted last month, claiming that there had been a “massive showdown” between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Home Secretary Govind Mohan over police action against protesting students at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.After Joshi was allegedly detained, there was widespread concern on social media. Several activists and Opposition members urged the Delhi Police to clarify if they had taken him into custody. Read on.The Calcutta High Court declined an urgent hearing to Anandabazar Patrika journalists against whom a first information report has been filed after the newspaper used the phrase “saffron hooliganism” in a headline. The bench said the matter should be filed in the regular course and would be heard according to the applicable procedure.The headline was about clashes between members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Left-affiliated student groups at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University on August 20. Read on.Fifteen civil society organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom wrote to London Mayor Sadiq Khan asking him to confirm that no venue owned by the city authority should be available for any event of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat. He is expected to arrive in the United Kingdom on Wednesday after having visited the United States and Canada.The civil society groups also asked whether the mayor would write to the home secretary to ask if Bhagwat’s visit had been assessed against criteria to prevent “extremists entering the UK”.They urged Khan to confirm that no mayoral representative will attend any RSS-linked events. Read on.Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar “never hated Muslims” but rather “showed the way for their progress”, his grandnephew Satyaki Savarkar told a Pune court. He made the statement while being cross-questioned in a defamation case he has filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his speech in London in 2023.Satyaki Savarkar alleged that Gandhi claimed in the speech that VD Savarkar had written a book, in which he described him and his friends beating a Muslim man. He alleged that Gandhi claimed VD Savarkar found the act enjoyable.With this, Gandhi portrayed VD Savarkar as “an extreme hater of Muslims and as a mob lyncher”, claimed Satyaki Savarkar. Read on.The Bombay High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the death of Disha Salian, the former manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. She had allegedly died by suicide on June 8, 2020, in Mumbai.Six days later, Rajput was found dead at his residence. The police had closed the case in 2021 and said that no evidence of foul play had been found in her death.However, her father Satish Salian moved the court in March 2025, alleging that Disha Salian was gangraped and murdered. He also claimed that there had been a politically-driven cover-up to shield “influential persons”. Read on.If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.