India’s hockey team clinched a semifinal berth at the Olympics, while the country grappled with widespread devastation from heavy rains. The Ayodhya gang-rape case sparked outrage as the victim’s mother accused political leaders of bribery, and Bangladesh witnessed deadly clashes leading to a nationwide curfew.
Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit defended Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s demand for a DNA test of the accused in the Ayodhya rape case, stating that such tests have been used in the past to verify suspects. Dikshit criticized the politicization of rape cases in Uttar Pradesh, calling the state of affairs ‘very sad’.
