Modi AWOL but Claiming Credit for ‘Saving’ Manipur; HC Denies Kejriwal Relief; Govt Wants to Ban 'National Dastak' With 9M Subscribers

Households’ debt hit all-time high in December 2023, Modi’s comment that Congress manifesto has ‘Muslim League’ imprint aims to polarise electorate

A newsletter from The Wire | Founded by MK Venu, Seema Chishti, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sushant Singh, Sidharth Bhatia, Pratik Kanjilal and Tanweer Alam | Contributing writer: Kalrav Joshi, with additional inputs by Anirudh SK 

---

Snapshot of the day

April 9, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

“Judges are bound by law and not by politics”, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said today while ruling that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate last month was not illegal. The judge said that “political considerations cannot be brought before a court of law” and that in the “absence of any mala fide on the part of [the] ED”, Kejriwal’s challenge to the timing of his arrest – just weeks before a crucial election – was “not sustainable”. She also found that