Chandigarh Police Head Constable Nitin Shot Dead at Sector 22 Residence; Forensic Probe Underway

The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear an urgent criminal writ plea seeking the takedown of sexually explicit, AI-manipulated deepfake images of a woman morphed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The petitioner alleged that the morphed photographs were circulated on social media and displayed on physical banners during a protest in Delhi. Despite an FIR registered by the Delhi Police Cyber Cell, the plea states that authorities and social media platforms failed to remove the content. The petitioner cited targeted harassment, constant mental trauma, and severe threats, moving the court for immediate removal of the manipulated images.

American mercenary Matthew Aaron Van Dyke and a Ukrainian national, among seven foreigners arrested by the National Investigation Agency earlier this year, have been released from Delhi's Tihar Jail. The court granted them permission to travel to their respective home countries to visit their families for a period of one month. The temporary release from prison is subject to specific legal conditions and formalities.

An India Today ground reality check examines the massive gap between the price to retailer and maximum retail price of life-saving cancer medicines following remarks by the Supreme Court. The top court questioned steep markups on cancer drugs, observing that a drug costing retailers twenty-seven hundred rupees carried an MRP of twenty-seven thousand rupees, terming the practice extortion and daylight robbery. At Delhi's wholesale medicine market, traders highlighted wide margins between procurement costs and printed MRPs on drugs such as trastuzumab. Meanwhile, patients and families at Delhi Cancer Institute shared financial struggles caused by expensive treatments and medicine shortages in dispensaries, forcing them to buy high-cost drugs outside.

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the State of Goa on a plea filed by former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal challenging his conviction and 10-year sentence in a 2013 rape case. During a brief hearing, Tejpal's counsel sought an early date and suspension of sentence, noting that he had surrendered following the reversal of his trial court acquittal by the High Court. Meanwhile, the Goa government has approached the top court seeking an enhancement of the 10-year term, calling it the minimum sentence. The court stated it would assign a date for hearing both aspects.