News Today Live Updates, 7 October | In his first reaction to the incident after a lawyer in his seventies allegedly hurled a shoe toward him inside his courtroom earlier in the day, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai told The Indian Express that he asked the lawyer arguing before him to “just ignore it”. “I am not distracted by all this. You also don’t be distracted and proceed further with the case,” he said Monday afternoon, recounting his immediate response to the incident that took place during mentioning hours in Court No. 1. Meanwhile, Bhim Mahabadur Jora, a Nepalese national with a Rs 1 lakh bounty, was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Gurgaon and Delhi Police late Monday in the Capital’s Aastha Kunj Park, police said early Tuesday. Jora, leader of a Nepali gang involved in thefts across major Indian cities, was wanted in multiple cases, including the murder of Dr Yogesh Chandra Paul in Delhi’s Jangpura in May 2024, and a Rs 20 lakh theft at the house of BJP’s Mehrauli District Vice-President Mamta Bharadwaj in Gurgaon’s Sector 49 on October 2, the police said. In other news, a year after he resigned as Delhi Chief Minister and moved out of the government bungalow in Civil Lines, Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has finally been allotted a Type-VII bungalow in Lodhi Estate by the Union government, The Indian Express has learnt.
