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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma alleged that the documents cited by the Congress to claim that his wife holds passports of three foreign countries had been supplied by a Pakistani social media group. The Bharatiya Janata Party leader added that his wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma had filed a first information report in response to the claims.

The chief minister claimed that the Congress had used details from an allegedly lost passport that had been uploaded to a Pakistani social media group to frame his wife.

The BJP leader said that anyone could register a company by paying $199. “After yesterday’s press conference, they created another company in the name of Riniki...” he alleged. Read on.

The Supreme Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to carry out a preliminary inquiry into allegations of favouritism in allotting government contracts in Arunachal Pradesh to companies linked to the family members of Chief Minister Pema Khandu. The order came on public interest litigations by two non-governmental organisations, Save Mon Region Federation and Voluntary Arunachal Senaa.

The petitioners alleged that contracts and tenders worth more than Rs 1,200 crore had been awarded to companies linked to the BJP leader, his wife Tsering Dolma and nephew Tsering Tashi. Read on.

The Delhi High Court ordered to restore two satirical X accounts – @DrNimoYadav and @Nehr_who – that were withheld in India since March 18 on the Centre’s directions. However, the allegedly objectionable posts mentioned in the blocking order should remain withheld, the bench said.

Prateek Sharma, the operator of @DrNimoYadav, and Kumar Nayan, who runs @Nehr_who, were directed to appear before a review committee of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to examine whether the posts will have to continue to be blocked.

The accounts were among 12 that the Centre had ordered to be withheld on March 18. In a challenge against the order, the Centre claimed the decision was taken as the accounts were spreading “false narratives” about the prime minister and portraying him “in bad taste”. Read on.

The Delhi High Court issued notice to the CBI on a petition by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing the central agency’s challenge to his discharge in the liquor policy case. Sharma is hearing the petition filed against a trial court order on February 27 discharging Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia and several others.

The CBI objected to Kejriwal’s submission, stating that it had received seven applications seeking the judge’s recusal. “There are allegations against the institution and we will support the institution,” it said. Read on.

The Supreme Court refused to interfere with a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal order declining to stay the proposed takeover of the now-insolvent Jaypee group’s assets by Gautam Adani’s Adani Enterprises. The bench asked the NCLAT to decide on the matter expeditiously.

The petition by the mining group Vedanta Limited was filed a day after the NCLAT declined to grant an interim stay on the National Company Law Tribunal’s approval of Adani Enterprises’ resolution plan. Read on.

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