VK News Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html For global scale banks, EAC-PM seeks mergers ‘Vishwanath and Sons’ box office collection day 12 vs ‘DC’ Day 19: Suriya starrer records 36.6% jump; Lokesh Kanagaraj film sees 48.4% growth Aquarius Horoscope Today, August 26, 2026: Rising expenses challenge you today; calm interactions at home can avert arguments Post-Covid, profits rise faster than investment Updated: Aug 26, 2026, 05:37 IST Zee moves SAT, seeks one-day extension for warrant subscription AI-powered hackers: The new cyberwar is faster, smarter & harder to stop | Businesses concerned over India, Japan trade deal: Ficci president Anant Goenka Capricorn Horoscope Today, August 26, 2026: Saturn empowers you while Jupiter opens doors; balance optimism with caution in love and finance Rajnath approves transfer of tech of DRDO missile systems to domestic industry to reduce import dependence BIS, comm min will work to support high-tech industries In a first, Rafales take on China’s J-16 fighters; why India is watching closely Sagittarius Horoscope Today, August 26, 2026: Courage sparks action; navigate relationship heat carefully ‘Jailed or killed’: How Iran is silencing citizens as internal tensions mount Updated: Aug 26, 2026, 04:15 IST ‘It was me, not minister Keerthana’: Malaysian woman Vinosha Ravi says viral video was misused to spread false narratives, files police complaint ‘Jolene’ to ‘I Will Always Love You’: Dolly Parton’s greatest songs, and the stories behind them Scorpio Horoscope Today, August 26, 2026: Bold decisions can lead to progress in personal and professional life; a steady relationship brings comfort NMC pushes old doctors to re-register, but can’t net new ones Mamdani was responding to questions about the RSS, the proposed event and protests against Bhagwat’s appearance. NEW DELHI: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not support a planned event featuring RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Madison Square Garden, while noting that the city may not have the legal authority to stop the private gathering.Bhagwat is scheduled to address around 5,000 members of the Indian diaspora at the iconic New York venue on August 29. His visit to the United States is part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s centenary-year global outreach programme.”I don’t support the rally, but I don’t know if the city has any jurisdiction on cancelling a private event,” Mamdani said at a news conference on Tuesday.Mamdani was responding to questions about the RSS, the proposed event and protests against Bhagwat’s appearance. He was also asked whether the gathering should be cancelled.The mayor, who is the first Indian-American to hold the post in New York City, said his views were influenced partly by his family background.“I also stand here as the first Indian-American Mayor in our city’s history, and my mother’s family is all still in India,” Mamdani said.He said his understanding of India was based on the idea of a society where people of different backgrounds could belong equally.He said the vision of India that he was taught by his family and the one that he grew up being very familiar with was that of “a pluralistic society, of a secular republic that believed in the belonging of each and every person who was from India”.Mamdani said he was opposed to what he described as an increasingly exclusionary political movement.“And it has been incredibly troubling to see the rise of a movement that is predicated on an exclusionary vision of any country, frankly, and so it is one that I find myself in deep opposition to, not only as an Indian-American but also as the Mayor of a city that believes deeply in the belonging of each and every person, no matter their colour, their creed, their religion, their faith, wherever they’re from,” Mamdani said.Protests planned over Bhagwat eventThe planned appearance has faced opposition from several interfaith and civil rights organisations. Groups including Hindus for Human Rights, the Indian American Muslim Council and the Interfaith Centre of New York held a press conference outside New York City Hall and called for the event to be cancelled.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesBhagwat arrived in the US on Tuesday as part of the RSS’s centenary-year outreach. During his stay in New York, he is also expected to participate in the Universal Oneness programme.The event is being organised by AHEAD Forum, which said in a social media post that Bhagwat would attend the Universal Oneness Celebration in New York on August 29.“The event carries a timeless and universal message: ‘The world is one family’. It calls upon us to look beyond artificial divisions and differences, recognise the bonds that unite humanity, and embrace a spirit of mutual respect, harmony, and oneness,” the post said.Bhagwat’s wider international tour includes the US, Canada and the UK as part of the Sangh’s centenary-year global outreach programme.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorRajeev SinghRajeev Singh is a Digital Content Producer with The Times of India. He covers politics, policies, defence, and conflicts for readers curious to know their implications. He loves digging into legal maxims and political trivia. On off days, when not turning pages or learning русский, he lives in the reverie of “what ifs” and “how abouts.”Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? 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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday directed former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal to first surrender within three weeks, saying that his appeal against conviction and 10-year imprisonment in a rape case would be heard only thereafter.Justice Alok Aradhe rejected Tejpal’s plea for exemption from surrendering and asked him to file a surrender certificate before it. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Tejpal, sought three weeks’ time to surrender, the bench granted him time to surrender.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesGoa govt opposed his plea for exemption from surrendering and said his appeal was not admissible since he had not filed a separate application seeking exemption from surrender or shown a certificate that he has already surrendered as per Order XXII Rule 5 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.The Goa bench of Bombay HC convicted Tejpal under multiple provisions of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment each under Sections 376(2)(f) and 376(2)(k), with the sentences to run concurrently.The case relates to two alleged incidents at Grand Hyatt in Goa during Tehelka’s THiNK Fest in Nov 2013. The high court found the victim’s evidence consistent and credible despite extensive cross-examination. The case against Tejpal involves allegations that he sexually assaulted a junior colleague twice in 2013, in an elevator of a high-end hotel in Goa.The Goa Police subsequently registered an FIR against Tarun Tejpal.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? Ex-cds Anil Chauhan Reveals Shocking DetailsBihar BPSC Protest Explodes In Patna As Students Break Barricades, Police Use Water Cannons | WatchIndia Opens DRDO Missile Technologies To Defence Firms In Major Push For Indigenous ProductionXi-Modi Meeting In Delhi? 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NEW DELHI: Demand from opposition MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, that a parliamentary committee take up the issue of use of “excessive” force against protesting students led to a fiery exchange at its meeting on Tuesday as a BJP member brought up the “glorification” of anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar to counter the Congress’s move to raise a matter that was not part of the agenda of “crimes against children”.Sources said Congress MP Ajay Maken had written to parliamentary committee on home affairs chairperson and BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal on Aug 5 saying the discussion should include the allegations against the Delhi Police that its personnel used pellet guns and nail-fitted batons against protesting students during their march to Parliament on July 20. As the committee met, Maken raised the issue and was supported by a number of other opposition MPs, including Priyanka and Senta UBT’s Sanjay Raut. They said the Delhi Police chief should be asked to appear before the committee, insisting that the issue fell within the ambit of crimes against children.Agrawal said the matter is sub judice. With opposition MPs pressing their demand, BJP MP Tarun Chugh said that if members are allowed to raise issues not on the agenda, then he would like the committee to take up the alleged glorification of a Sikh-riots convict, a reference to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar who died last week while serving his sentence.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesChugh’s remarks drew a sharp reaction from Congress MP Jai Prakash, who said the issue was not relevant at all. BJP has accused Congress MP Deepender Hooda of being laudatory in his tribute to Kumar. Hooda has rejected the charge. Agrawal managed to restore order while ruling out a discussion on issues not on the agenda, even as he added that the committee would take up at a later date the issue of SOPs for the use of force against protesters.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? Ex-cds Anil Chauhan Reveals Shocking DetailsBihar BPSC Protest Explodes In Patna As Students Break Barricades, Police Use Water Cannons | WatchIndia Opens DRDO Missile Technologies To Defence Firms In Major Push For Indigenous ProductionXi-Modi Meeting In Delhi? 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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Abhishek Upadhyay who claimed he was vindictively booked under SC/ST Act by Ghaziabad police for an alleged road rage incident just because he had exposed embezzlement of donations offered by devotees at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate Pradeep Rai told a bench of CJI Surya Kant that Upadhyay was the whistleblower and the first to report the alleged misappropriation of monies donated by devotees at the Ayodhya temple.He said since UP Police is vindictive, investigations into the alleged road accident case lodged against him coupled with charges under SC/ST Act should be transferred to an independent agency such as CBI or Delhi Police.Rai complained that police are yet to furnish a copy of the FIR and CCTV camera footage of the alleged accident involving his vehicle and a two-wheeler to the petitioner who is accused of hurling caste-based abuses at the two-wheeler rider after the accident.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe bench issued notice to Ghaziabad police and said that “no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioner in the FIR registered at Indirapuram police station, or any such subsequent FIR that may be registered against him in relation to the allegations.”Asking police to furnish a copy of the FIR to the petitioner to enable him to take remedial steps in accordance with the law, the bench said, “As soon as a copy of the FIR is received by the petitioner, he shall be at liberty to approach the jurisdictional high court for seeking relevant relief.”Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? Ex-cds Anil Chauhan Reveals Shocking DetailsBihar BPSC Protest Explodes In Patna As Students Break Barricades, Police Use Water Cannons | WatchIndia Opens DRDO Missile Technologies To Defence Firms In Major Push For Indigenous ProductionXi-Modi Meeting In Delhi? 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The Qatari royal who made haute couture her signature5 iconic places in Maharashtra where Ganesh Chaturthi is more than a festivalChinese singer Liu Yu’s Manish Malhotra couture moment in Paris is proof that Indian craftsmanship needs no introduction10 baby girl names that sound modern but have ancient roots5 traditional Bengali sarees you probably haven’t heard ofFrom castor to coconut oil: Natural oils for faster beard growthTraitors 2: From Shalini Passi’s over Rs 2,000 crore family wealth to Mallika Sherawat’s Rs 170 crore fortune, here’s a look at the net worth of popular contestantsYour blood pressure could be rising because of these 7 everyday habits you may think are completely harmless7 simple ways to live every day like a holiday like Dua Lipa, despite working full-timeUrvashi Rautela makes a tricolour statement in a one-of-a-kind gown that took 3 months to create123Hot PicksBPSC exam rowSugar priceNew Zealand social media banTrump tariffICSI CS june resultNEET UG 2026Sridhar VembuTrump’s SpaceXNEET PG 2026 admit cardTop TrendingBandra Parsi BungalowSuresh GowdaRupali ChakankarKarnataka Food Licence SuspensionAllahabad High CourtMumbai Airport DemolitionRam RahimDelhi Women AccidentDelhi Gurgaon RainMaharashtra Hill Tragedy Harry Potter star Dame Maggie Smith’s final will reveals £16 million fortune to her two sons, including secluded Sussex farmhouse, after her death Canada hits back at Trump, imposes up to 50% tariffs on US goods as trade war escalates In 1903, rabbits were released on Hawaii’s Laysan Island as a food source; within a decade they had nearly stripped it bare, and three of its five landbird species eventually went extinct In Jan, railway board chairperson Satish Kumar had said the project cost had increased by around 83% to Rs 1.98 lakh crore. (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The cost of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train has been revised to around Rs 2.1 lakh crore, nearly double the original cost of approximately Rs 1.1 lakh crore. The proposal to seek approval for the revised cost of the 508-km high-speed rail line was placed before the Cabinet Tuesday, TOI has learnt.Sources said the railway ministry has cited the time taken in land acquisition in Maharashtra and delay in getting the train sets from Japan as among the main reasons for the cost escalation. They added the project is likely to be completed in 2030 and the first leg of the corridor is scheduled to be operational in Aug 2027.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesSources said most of the additional funding would come from budgetary support. So far, the funding of Rs 1.1 lakh crore has been from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and budgetary allocation. They added that Railways has said high-speed trains will be manufactured in India and each of these would cost around Rs 390 crore to Rs 400 crore. There was no official briefing on the decisions of the Cabinet meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi.In Jan, railway board chairperson Satish Kumar had said the project cost had increased by around 83% to Rs 1.98 lakh crore. The project has faced time and cost overruns due to many reasons, including delay in land acquisition, statutory clearances and finalisation of the trains.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? Ex-cds Anil Chauhan Reveals Shocking DetailsBihar BPSC Protest Explodes In Patna As Students Break Barricades, Police Use Water Cannons | WatchIndia Opens DRDO Missile Technologies To Defence Firms In Major Push For Indigenous ProductionXi-Modi Meeting In Delhi? China Prepares Massive Delegation As India-China Ties Show Fresh ThawExplained: Why Are Sugar Prices Rising In India Despite Record Sugarcane Production?Supreme Court Notice To 20 Rebel TMC MPs On Abhishek Banerjee’s Disqualification Plea’People Were Shot In The Head’: Sonam Wangchuk Seeks Inquiry Report Into 2025 Ladakh ViolenceAjeet Bharti EXCLUSIVE On ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’, Harsh Dubey, CJP & His Criticism Of BJPTMC’s Abhishek Banerjee Moves Supreme Court Over Delay In Disqualification Of 20 Rebel TMC MPs123PhotostoriesWho is Sheikha Moza? The Qatari royal who made haute couture her signature5 iconic places in Maharashtra where Ganesh Chaturthi is more than a festivalChinese singer Liu Yu’s Manish Malhotra couture moment in Paris is proof that Indian craftsmanship needs no introduction10 baby girl names that sound modern but have ancient roots5 traditional Bengali sarees you probably haven’t heard ofFrom castor to coconut oil: Natural oils for faster beard growthTraitors 2: From Shalini Passi’s over Rs 2,000 crore family wealth to Mallika Sherawat’s Rs 170 crore fortune, here’s a look at the net worth of popular contestantsYour blood pressure could be rising because of these 7 everyday habits you may think are completely harmless7 simple ways to live every day like a holiday like Dua Lipa, despite working full-timeUrvashi Rautela makes a tricolour statement in a one-of-a-kind gown that took 3 months to create123Hot PicksBPSC exam rowSugar priceNew Zealand social media banTrump tariffICSI CS june resultNEET UG 2026Sridhar VembuTrump’s SpaceXNEET PG 2026 admit cardTop TrendingBandra Parsi BungalowSuresh GowdaRupali ChakankarKarnataka Food Licence SuspensionAllahabad High CourtMumbai Airport DemolitionRam RahimDelhi Women AccidentDelhi Gurgaon RainMaharashtra Hill Tragedy Dolly Parton, country music icon and actress passes away at 80; funeral details revealed Leo Horoscope Today, August 26, 2026: Amplified charisma may yield success; focus on relationships while managing time and resources wisely Read petition filed against Spacex, after xAI data centers reportedly pushed out a family that owned 2-acre property in Mississippi for over 100 years Texas Roadhouse says claims of white employees discussing spitting in Black customers’ food in a Facebook group are ‘completely unfounded’ The SG said Centre was not seeking review or modification of the judgement. NEW DELHI: Seeking two years to frame creamy layer criteria for OBCs, Centre Tuesday requested Supreme Court for an early hearing on its application against retrospective implementation of SC’s March 11 judgement, which disallowed this classification of OBC candidates based on the salaries of parents employed in PSUs or the private sector.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta requested a bench led by CJI Surya Kant to list the application seeking certain clarifications on the March 11 judgement in the Rohit Nathan case. This was opposed by advocate Varun Thakur, who said the law was settled by SC.The SG said Centre was not seeking review or modification of the judgement but wanted to apprise the court of field-level difficulties in retrospective implementation. The SG said this would require changing the status of older batches of creamy layer OBC candidates to non-creamy and warrant change in cadre, post and service in civil services. It would also necessitate corresponding changes for an equal number of candidates who had long been serving in a cadre and service like IFS, IAS and IPS, and result in chaos.Mehta said he was only requesting early listing before a bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan. CJI agreed to list the applications on Sept 1.In its application, Centre said, “On account of the serious challenges and implications with the implementation of the directions of SC, govt is committed to bring out a policy which will effectively address the observations made by SC, while also ensuring that the direct and indirect impact of the policy is fair and just.”If the March 11 judgement is implemented without suitable policy intervention it will have a far-reaching impact on govt recruitments and admissions in higher education institutions undertaken by central as well as 18 state/UT govts, it said.Govt said major bodies/employers — like Railways, banks, the department of posts and paramilitary — would also be flooded with hundreds of thousands of representations/litigations seeking retrospective reclassification of the creamy layer.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesFollowing the Indra Sawhney judgement in 1992, govt had issued an office memorandum on Sept 8, 1993, prescribing the criteria for identifying the OBC creamy layer who would be excluded from reservation benefits.In its March 11 judgement, SC had also observed that the determination of the creamy layer status must be based on the occupational categories specified in the 1993 office memorandum and the income of parents employed in private sector organisations could not automatically lead to the conclusion that the candidate belonged to the creamy layer.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosPakistan Tried Chinese Satellites For Op Sindoor Evidence But Failed, Says Ex-CDS Anil ChauhanPak’s Nuke Storage Area Kirana Hills Hit In Op Sindoor? Ex-cds Anil Chauhan Reveals Shocking DetailsBihar BPSC Protest Explodes In Patna As Students Break Barricades, Police Use Water Cannons | WatchIndia Opens DRDO Missile Technologies To Defence Firms In Major Push For Indigenous ProductionXi-Modi Meeting In Delhi? 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The Qatari royal who made haute couture her signature5 iconic places in Maharashtra where Ganesh Chaturthi is more than a festivalChinese singer Liu Yu’s Manish Malhotra couture moment in Paris is proof that Indian craftsmanship needs no introduction10 baby girl names that sound modern but have ancient roots5 traditional Bengali sarees you probably haven’t heard ofFrom castor to coconut oil: Natural oils for faster beard growthTraitors 2: From Shalini Passi’s over Rs 2,000 crore family wealth to Mallika Sherawat’s Rs 170 crore fortune, here’s a look at the net worth of popular contestantsYour blood pressure could be rising because of these 7 everyday habits you may think are completely harmless7 simple ways to live every day like a holiday like Dua Lipa, despite working full-timeUrvashi Rautela makes a tricolour statement in a one-of-a-kind gown that took 3 months to create123Hot PicksBPSC exam rowSugar priceNew Zealand social media banTrump tariffICSI CS june resultNEET UG 2026Sridhar VembuTrump’s SpaceXNEET PG 2026 admit cardTop TrendingBandra Parsi BungalowSuresh GowdaRupali ChakankarKarnataka Food Licence SuspensionAllahabad High CourtMumbai Airport DemolitionRam RahimDelhi Women AccidentDelhi Gurgaon RainMaharashtra Hill Tragedy ‘Do we need a 4th-party audit?’ PM raps secretaries over quality of public projects Quote of the day by Aristotle: “The man of practical wisdom aims at avoiding pain, not at attaining pleasure” | World News This was new information for SC, which was concerned by pendency of 37 lakh appeals NEW DELHI: In a new twist to the simmering controversy over the West Bengal SIR, Supreme Court was informed Tuesday that against 27-lakh odd deletions from voters’ list because of ‘logical discrepancy’ only seven lakh filed appeals seeking inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was informed by senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan that of total 38.1 lakh appeals filed before the SIR appellate tribunals, an overwhelming 31 lakh were filed by those who challenged inclusion of names in the rolls claiming they were ineligible to be voters in Bengal.Chunk of WB appeals was against inclusionThis was new information for SC, which was concerned by pendency of 37 lakh appeals, as 19 tribunals in last four months decided only 82,000 appeals. The new turn means 20 lakh of 27-lakh-odd voters deleted for logical discrepancy have not appealed against being struck off the rolls during the SIR.SC said a chunk of appeals was by those challenging inclusion. EC will give breakup differentiating those seeking inclusion from exclusion. Prioritising inclusion appeals would considerably reduce burden on tribunals, it said.For petitioner Prasenjit Bose from Congress, advocates Gopal Sankaranarayanan and Neha Rathi alleged that bulk of appeals for exclusion/deletion have been filed by EC in a mechanical manner against orders of judicial officers who had directed inclusion of the names and these appeals should not be heard at all.Sankaranarayanan said Kolkata and Howrah civic polls are due in Dec and at least appeals pertaining to these areas should be decided expeditiously so nobody gets disenfranchised illegally.SC said its main concern was expeditious decision on appeals of disenfranchised people. It directed EC to respond with data on appeals pending after segregating them into two categories — those seeking inclusion and those seeking exclusion of names. It asked EC to suggest a mechanism for speeding up disposal, including increasing the number of tribunals.The bench also asked EC to detail steps taken to include names of those whose appeals had been allowed. EC said it was holding meetings with the acting CJ of Calcutta HC and would submit a proposal on expediting disposal.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesAppearing for some petitioners, advocate Rauf Rahim said people whose names were deleted and whose appeals were pending should not be deprived of ration and benefits under the govt schemes.Advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay told the bench that in Murshidabad, many constituencies had voter deletions far exceeding winning margin, and alleged a particular community appeared to have been targeted through SIR. SC will hear issue again next week.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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