India top news live updates: Talwars acquitted in Aarushi case, Mukul Roy’s resignation, Oommen Chandy in solar scam

The Allahabad High Court today acquitted Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the murder of their daughter Aarushi. The parents who were earlier held guilty by a CBI court and sent to Gaziabad's Dansal Jail for life imprisonment

The Kerala government ordered a Vigilance probe against former UDF Chief Minister OOmmen Chandy in the multi- crore solar scam case on Wednesday. The government has also decided to file rape cases against Chandy who is reported to have been named by the prime accused Saritha S Nair in a letter dated July 17, 2013 alleging sexual abuse. Source: Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, on the concluding day of his three-day Navsarjan Yatra across tribal districts of Central Gujarat, continued his scathing attacks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP Chief Amit Shah and his son Jay Shah. Gandhi, whose last stop was a public address in Fagvel in Kheda, mocked Modi for ‘selling dreams to the poor’s, saying that by 2030, Modi will bring the moon to India.’

Suspended Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy resigned as Rajya Sabha MP and from primary membership of his party on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Roy met Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu and submitted his resignation from Rajya Sabha, choosing not to continue in a post that he had won as a TMC leader.

Amit Shah who was in Amethi to lay foundation stone for several projects targeted Rahul Gandhi and asked what “three generations of his family” had done for the development of Amethi. This comes a day after the Congress vice-president, while addressing a rally in Kheda district of Gujarat, asked a crowd: “What has happened to vikaas (development) in Gujarat?”