Delhi Confidential: Burden of proof

During Operation Sindoor, CPI(M) MP John Brittas had written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding an inquiry into targeted online attacks against Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, his family and the kin of Pahalgam terror attack. The MP had referred to some of the abusive posts that were in the public domain then. After over three months, Delhi Police asked the Rajya Sabha MP to provide the proof for filing an FIR. The MP, while submitting the evidence of the cyber attack, wrote to the police that it was trying to “abdicate its statutory duty in insisting that he must furnish the corroborating evidence for such a complaint”. Brittas argued that as an MP he was “fully competent to bring such grave matters… to the attention of law enforcement authorities”.

Health Advice

In his interaction with a cross-section of people in the Capital to set the tone for “new horizons” as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh turns 100, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat sought to allay apprehensions that the Sangh’s expansion has an aggressive intent towards any community, saying, tongue firmly in cheek, that people exercise for good health of the body and not to intimidate someone else. He, however, added that a healthy body is helpful in the event of a threat.