Republican Congressman Lance Gooden penned a sharply worded letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, criticizing the indictment of industrialist Gautam Adani and labelling it a "selective action" that could jeopardize Washington's vital partnership with India.
Several reports attempted to give casteist color to the matter as they said that the 'Casteists' crushed the huts of the victims with a tractor and destroyed their crops. However, Yadavs claim that the Sahariya family hit them with an axe.
CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan were hearing the challenge to the Karnataka HC order, which rejected the State's decision in March 2018 to allow only a Mujawar (Muslim Priest) to execute the rites at the Datta Peeta.
Two of close friends of Chandan Gupta, Anupam Chouhan and Vivek Maheshwari, who the family was counting on as key witnesses, didn’t appear in court at all.
So-called comedian Kunal Kamra shared a photo of Umar Khalid and wrote, "Heart knows no concept of time," suggesting that even though they had not met for years, Khalid and Kamra were still friends.