The Catch Up: 21 November

It’s the 21st of November and here are the headlines.

Police in Mathura, after questioning the father of a 21-year-old woman whose body was found inside a red suitcase on the Yamuna Expressway last week, have concluded that he killed her because she left home for a few days without informing the family. While police were initially clueless about who she was, and had formed five teams to look for clues, they made a breakthrough when her mother and brother came forward to identify her based on photographs circulated of the woman. On Monday, police called it a case of honour killing.

The Karnataka Police Monday confirmed the identity of the accused behind the Mangaluru autorickshaw blast as Mohammed Sharik, 24, and said that his actions were “inspired by terror outfits with a global presence”. Four others have also been nabbed by the police for questioning in connection with the case, with more arrests likely in the coming days, they added.

Suspended Andaman Labour Commissioner R L Rishi was arrested in Port Blair today. On October 1, Rishi, along with former Chief Secretary of Andaman &Nicobar Islands, Jitendra Narain, was named in an FIR filed at the Aberdeen police station in Port Blair, based on a woman’s complaint. She that they had lured her with the promise of a government job. Narain was arrested earlier this month after a Sessions Court in Port Blair rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

The Madhya Pradesh government is going to move the Supreme Court to challenge the high court’s interim order restraining it from prosecuting interfaith couples who enter wedlock without informing the district magistrate. The high court, in an interim order, directed the state government not to prosecute adults who solemnise their marriage on their own volition. The high court’s interim direction came on a bunch of seven petitions challenging provisions of the MP Freedom of Religion Act, 2021. The petitioners sought interim relief to restrain the state from prosecuting anyone under the Act.

Retired Punjab cadre IAS officer Arun Goel today assumed the office of Election Commissioner (EC), two days after President Droupadi Murmu appointed him to the post.
Goel was secretary, Union Ministry of Heavy Industries, till he took voluntary retirement on November 18, a day before being appointed as EC.

This was the Catch-up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.