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A minor girl’s gang rape and death in Bihar’s Saran district has sparked outrage and a Rajput–Paswan narrative battle online, even as police await post-mortem findings.

A headline-grabbing 118.4% rise, when stripped of institutional scale and context, turns limited data into a manufactured crisis to justify regulatory overreach.

IIT Delhi ordered a review after objections to speakers, sessions, and ideological framing, with critics alleging selective scholarship, activist influence, and attempts to internationalise India’s caste discourse through race based comparisons and global advocacy platforms.

The structural design of the UGC Promotion of Equity Regulations, 2026, raises serious concerns about procedural balance and institutional fairness. The framework prioritises speed, perception, and compliance, but leaves critical gaps in safeguards, clarity, and due process, thereby furthering dangerous stereotypes, assuming guilt, and demonising those belonging to the general category, while disregarding false complaints and their impact on the lives of innocent students.

Rahul Gandhi's claim that Dalits have no representation in India’s judiciary falls under basic scrutiny, given that the current Chief Justice of India, Justice BR Gavai, is from the SC background.

Despite Congress alleging caste-based violence, Raebareli Police confirmed Hariom Valmiki was lynched after being mistaken for a thief. The accused belong to various communities, debunking Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to communalise and politicise the tragedy for political gain.

Reports (FIRs), arrest memos, or other police documents. Instead, the names of parents will be used for identification purposes. The order further directs that caste symbols, slogans, and references displayed on police station noticeboards, vehicles, or signboards must be removed immediately.