Morning Digest | A month after Rahul Bhat’s killing, over 5,400 Pandit employees refuse to join duty in Valley, Rahul Gandhi to appear before ED again today, and more

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Rahul Gandhi questioned by ED for 9 hours in National Herald case, summoned again today

Congress workers took to the streets in large numbers in multiple cities, including Delhi, on Monday as former party chief Rahul Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. The former Congress chief had been summoned again on Tuesday as well and left the ED headquarters at around 9:25 pm, after nearly six hours of questioning in the second round.

Arrest count in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal increase; sporadic incidents reported even as situation de-escalates

Several towns across West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, where protests over the comments of erstwhile BJP spokespersons on the Prophet had spiralled into violence on June 10, were limping back to normalcy on Monday. The count of persons arrested by the police in the two States rose to 333 in Uttar Pradesh and 200 in Bengal; 13 FIRs have been registered by the U.P. police while their West Bengal counterparts have lodged 42 FIRs so far.

A month after Rahul Bhat’s killing, over 5,400 Pandit employees refuse to join duty in Valley

More than 5,000 Kashmiri Pandit employees, recruited under the Prime Minister’s special employment package since 2008, continued to stay away from offices in the Valley on Monday, even as a month has passed since a Pandit employee was shot dead by militants in his office in Budgam. 

Sri Lankan official resigns amid Adani project row