The Madhya Pradesh High Court's Jabalpur Bench has quashed an FIR against Dr. Ajai Lall, a Christian missionary and office-bearer of Aadhaarshila Sansthan, for charges of child trafficking related to adoptions that took place 15 years ago. The Court expressed its disapproval of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), which had initiated the investigation despite no complaints from the children or their adoptive parents.

Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Sachin Kurmi was murdered by unidentified men with a sharp-edged weapon in Mumbai's Byculla area on Saturday.

The Maharashtra government has received a legal notice from SKAAH GmbH, a Switzerland-based service provider, regarding an unpaid bill of ₹1.58 crore. The payment is allegedly due for hospitality services rendered to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and other officials during the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos earlier this year.

Authorities at the Vadodara airport received a bomb threat email, which turned out to be a hoax after a thorough search of the premises, police said on Saturday.

Haryana Jan Sevak Party candidate Balraj Kundu, contesting from the Meham assembly constituency, has alleged that former Congress MLA Anand Singh Dangi assaulted him and his personal assistant at a polling booth in Rohtak district on Saturday.

A day after Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Singh was released on a 20-day parole, the sect's headquarters issued a call for its followers to support the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The appeal was made discreetly during a satsang at the Dera's headquarters in Sirsa on Thursday night, urging the attendees to mobilize additional voters within their local communities.

As the polling for 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana began on Saturday, Congress MP Kumari Selja said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ready to welcome her because they are “very weak”.

India on Friday announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in mid-October.