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A June confrontation involving a CJP protester’s father has grown into a wider legal controversy involving an alleged assault, SC/ST Act provisions, a separate POCSO case and threats against a minor activist New Delhi, September 15, 2026: The controversy surrounding social-media figure Swatantra Bhardwaj has developed from a June confrontation at Delhi's Jantar Mantar into a wider legal dispute involving allegations of assault, caste-based abuse, online threats and competing claims over what happened during the confrontation. The latest development came on September 15 , when a Delhi court granted Bhardwaj three weeks' interim bail in the case concerning the alleged assault of Sanjay Azad , father of teenage CJP activist Nishu Aazad . The temporary relief does not amount to an acquittal and does not bring the criminal proceedings to an end. The case has attracted attention because of Bhardwaj's social-media profile, his own statements about the confrontation, the sub...

  From exposing broken roads and civic failures to facing criminal allegations over social-media posts, Pandit's arrest has raised questions about free expression, police procedure and the limits of online criticism Pune: For years, Santosh Gajanan Pandit built his public identity around a deceptively simple idea: point a camera at problems that citizens had learned to live with. A pothole. A damaged road. A broken drain. An alleged traffic violation. A civic project he believed had been poorly executed. Pandit recorded them, confronted officials and public representatives, posted the encounters online and, in some cases, returned repeatedly until the issue received attention. His approach turned ordinary civic complaints into highly visible social-media content. Now, the 48-year-old Pune activist and content creator is in judicial custody in connection with cases concerning allegedly obscene, sexually suggestive, abusive and defamatory content posted online. A Pune court re...

Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh | 8 August 2026 A video showing BJP MLA Yogesh Verma being slapped and manhandled during a public altercation has once again gone viral on social media, with many users sharing it as a recent incident. However, available evidence indicates that the footage actually dates back to October 2024 and relates to a dispute during the Lakhimpur Urban Cooperative Bank election process in Uttar Pradesh. The confrontation occurred during the nomination process for the cooperative bank elections in Lakhimpur Kheri, where tensions had reportedly escalated between rival groups supporting different candidates for the bank's governing body. Videos from the incident show Yogesh Verma involved in a heated argument before he was allegedly slapped and physically manhandled in the presence of police personnel. Officers intervened and attempted to separate those involved before bringing the situation under control. According to multiple media reports, the individual accuse...