Look at the top headlines of the day.
- Delhi Police search the offices of ‘The Wire’ and the homes of Siddharth Varadharajan and three other editors. The search was conducted in connection with a complaint filed by BJP leader Amit Malviya, said MK Venu, the website’s founding editor. Scroll.in.
- The SC states that anyone who performs a two-finger test on a raped woman is guilty of cheating. This test is prohibited and is used to determine whether a woman is accustomed to sexual intercourse by looking at whether the vaginal opening is narrow or wide.
- Two of the nine ticket clerks arrested after the Morbi Bridge collapse killed 132: Two managers of a company that recently renovated the bridge and three security guards were also detained.
- Journalist Siddiq Kapan has been denied bail by the Lucknow Court in a money laundering case. He will remain in prison despite a Supreme Court grant of bail last month in a lawsuit filed under the Tort Prevention Act.
- The Supreme Court agrees to hear petitions challenging the First Amendment. This amendment deals with reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech and expression.
- Delhi police raided my house and cited false disclosure statements to seize the device, Mohammed Zubair said. Police alleged the journalist told them the laptop and mobile phone he used to post the tweets that got him arrested were at his home in Bengaluru.
- The Center could consider the Sedition Act during the winter session of Congress, and the Attorney General told the Supreme Court: The court will next hold a hearing the second week of January. On May 11, the Supreme Court suspended the Peace Preservation Act, requiring state governments and the Center not to file new cases under the rule until it is reviewed.
- The CAA will not affect the rights of Indian citizens, the Center told the Supreme Court. In an affidavit, the Center said it was a “focused law” that seeks to provide relief, in the nature of the amnesty, to certain communities from certain countries with clear deadlines. .
- Luis Inacio Lula da Silva defeats Jair Bolsonaro to make comeback in Brazilian elections: A former factory worker has returned to the presidency for the first time in 20 years.
- Elon Musk Disbands Twitter’s Board of Directors, Becomes ‘Sole Board’: All directors were dismissed on Oct. 27 after Musk took over the company, the social media platform said in a securities report.
