The West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department searched the Kolkata home of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

This was part of an investigation into allegations made by rebel TMC MLAs Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha that 14 forged signatures were included in a letter submitted to support the appointment of Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as the leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.

Banerjee was in Delhi during the day. Her residence is also an office of the Opposition party. TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, had skipped summons in the case. Read on.

Fourteen Kuki persons who had been held hostage in Manipur since May 13 were released by the United Naga Council and Naga civil society organisations. Ng Lohro, the president of the United Naga Council, said that he hoped the six Naga men who continue to be held by armed groups would be released soon.

They were among the more than 38 persons from the Kuki and Naga communities had been taken hostage by armed groups in the state’s Kangpokpi and Senapati districts on May 13. On May 15, the Manipur Police said that 28 of the persons who had been abducted were released. Read on.

The Congress took several of its MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, barring a few senior legislators, from Bhopal to Bengaluru ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls in the state on June 18. It is “important to keep an eye out because of the way BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] is trying to cause disruptions”, said Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Umang Singhar.

The Congress is the ruling party in Karnataka and is in the Opposition in Madhya Pradesh.

The BJP is expected to win two of the three Upper House seats in the polls, and the Congress the third. Read on.

A Patna court directed that no coercive action be taken against Bihar educator and YouTuber Faizal Khan, popularly known as Khan Sir, in an attempted murder case until the next hearing. Khan had been booked after two of his security guards allegedly told the police that he ordered them to open fire during violence outside his coaching institute in Patna on June 2.

The case came days after Khan claimed that “eight to ten rounds of gunfire” were fired outside his coaching institute, Khan Global Studies, after a group allegedly vandalised the premises in Patna’s Musallahpur area. Read on.

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