Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for several hours, said on Friday that a first information report had been registered against him for a social media post. It was filed under sections pertaining to provocation with the intent to cause a riot.Sharing a video posted by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Joshi asked if Section 192 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, under which he was charged, would also be invoked against the Hindutva party as the clip “clearly meets the threshold of provocation”.The video posted by the BJP had called on its state units to “rip apart the propaganda” of ‘dimagi Naxals’, or persons with “Naxal mentality”. Read on.‘Dimagi naxals’: The freedom to disagree is a political right – and is economically valuable, writes Freddy ThomasThe Delhi Police have detained a Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted the father of a student activist during the youth protests at Jantar Mantar. This came after a row sparked by a purported video of the influencer, Swatantra Bharadwaj, claiming that a call from Delhi minister Kapil Mishra helped him avoid arrest.On July 23, Sanjay Kumar, the father of student activist Nishu Aazad, was assaulted at Jantar Mantar during demonstrations against alleged irregularities in competitive examinations. Recently, a purported video of Bharadwaj that was widely shared online showed him claiming that he was not jailed despite having “cracked the skull” of Kumar.Following the controversy over the video, members of the Cockroach Janta Party held a protest outside the Parliament Street police station, demanding that charges under provisions relating to attempt to murder be added to the first information report registered in the case. Read on.HarperCollins India said it will publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, in the subcontinent. This came after Penguin Random House India, which was supposed to publish the book originally, backed out.Last month, media reports said that Penguin India had dropped the memoir after Gandhi rejected certain “editorial changes and deletions” that the publisher wanted in the manuscript. However, said this was not accurate. Read on.The toll in the flash flood and mudslide in Nepal and China, which occurred on August 26, rose to 1,311. Of these, 1,290 deaths were reported in Nepal.The remaining 21 deaths were on the Chinese side of the border. Nearly 5,000 persons were missing in Nepal and more than 500 in China. Those missing in Nepal included 601 foreigners.Two men were rescued from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project on Friday, nine days after the flood. Read on.If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.