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The Supreme Court stayed the transit anticipatory bail granted to Congress leader Pawan Khera by the Telangana High Court in a case registered by the Assam Police. The bench said it was “surprised” by the High Court’s April 10 order.

Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, wife of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, had filed a first information report against Khera after he claimed on April 5 that she holds passports in several countries.

Appearing for the Assam Police in the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that Khera filing his plea in Telangana was a “complete abuse of process”. Read on.

In a fresh affidavit, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has said that Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma should recuse herself from hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s challenge to his discharge in the Delhi liquor policy case as her children were empanelled as counsels with the Union government. They are both allocated cases by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is appearing before the court for the CBI, noted Kejriwal.

He argued that the apprehensions of bias are “direct, grave and impossible to ignore”.

Videos of Kejriwal arguing his case in person before the High Court had been shared widely on social media. However, the court has directed the police to remove unauthorised videos of the former Delhi chief minister from circulation. Read on.

The toll in a boiler blast at a power plant owned by Vedanta Limited in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district climbed to 19. Seventeen injured persons were being treated at several hospitals.

The explosion is said to have taken place in a steel tube carrying superheated steam from the boiler to the turbine at the power plant. After the tube burst, superheated steam with a temperature of about 600 degrees Celsius fell on workers having their lunch, according to reports.

The sub-divisional magistrate of Dabhra has been asked to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within a month, said District Collector Amrit Vikas Topno. Read on.

The Enforcement Directorate conducted raids at the home of Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashok Mittal, who replaced Raghav Chadha as the party’s deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha, in connection with alleged foreign exchange violations. Among the premises raided was the campus of Lovely Professional University in Punjab’s Phagwara city.

Mittal is the founder and chancellor of the university. Two linked institutes in Haryana’s Gurugram were also searched. Read on.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Samrat Choudhary took oath as the chief minister of Bihar, a day after Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar resigned from the post. He is the first BJP chief minister of the state.

JD(U) leaders Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Vijay Kumar Choudhary were sworn-in as the deputy chief ministers. Read on.

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