Rush Hour: Hindutva influencer gets bail, CBI books Arunachal activist in FCRA case and more

Swatantra Bharadwaj, a Hindutva influencer who allegedly assaulted the father of a student activist during the Delhi youth protests, was granted three weeks of interim bail. He had been detained on September 4 after a purported video featured him claiming that a phone call from Delhi minister Kapil Mishra helped him avoid arrest for the assault.

The purported video showed him claiming that he had not been jailed despite having “cracked the skull” of Kumar. After it was widely shared, Bharadwaj was booked for causing simple hurt and wrongful restraint.

Bharadwaj has claimed that he acted in self-defence and that, had he not done so he could have “lynched by the mob or killed”. Read on.

A man accused of ramming a car into a woman biker in Gurugram was arrested in Rajasthan. The police have added attempt to murder charges in the first information report they had registered on suo moto basis.

The FIR was registered on Monday after the woman biker shared a video on social media showing a car ramming into her and speeding away as she fell to the ground. The FIR had initially only mentioned charges related to rash driving. Read on.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against Arunachal Pradesh-based lawyer and environmental activist Bhanu...

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