Ensuring peaceful polls in the fifth phase of elections for the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal on May 20 will be yet another challenging task for the Election Commission (EC) as over 57 per cent of the booths in this phase have been identified as sensitive in nature. As per records of the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, the exact percentage of the identified sensitive booth in this phase is 57.19 per cent, which is substantially higher than the figure of 23.5 per cent in the fourth phase on May 13.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed its eighth charge sheet before a court here in connection with the money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, naming Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal as accused. On Thursday, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S.V. Raju, representing the ED, informed the Supreme Court that a prosecution complaint against AAP and its national convenor was in the pipeline and would be lodged soon before the special court.

Soon after recording her statement before the magistrate, the AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal on Friday took to X and said that "the truth will be revealed to everyone as soon as the CCTV footage of the house and the room is checked". Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Monday, and on Thursday an FIR was filed against CM Kejriwal’s personal secretary Bibhav Kumar. The FIR has been registered under sections 308, 341, 354 D, 506, and 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Civil Lines police station.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal reached the Tis Hazari court in Delhi on Friday to get her statement recorded before the magistrate in connection with the alleged assault on her at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance and issued a summon to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Personal Secretary Bibhav Kumar to appear before it on Friday in connection with the allegations levelled by Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal. "The National Commission for Women had taken suo moto cognisance of the media post captioned "DCW chief Swati Maliwal accuses Arvind Kejriwal's personal secretary of assaulting her", wherein it was reported that Swati Mailwal, RS MP and former DCW chief has alleged that the Pvt. Secretary of Arvind Kejriwal had brutally assaulted her at CM's residence," read the notice to Kumar.

A Delhi Police's Special Cell team, including senior officers, reached AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal's residence here days after she was allegedly assaulted at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence. Additional Commissioner of Police Pramod Kumar Kushwaha, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police along with other officers came to Maliwal’s residence. More details are awaited.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday brought to the notice of the Supreme Court statements made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealing to people to vote for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) if they wished he (Kejriwal) did not return to jail. Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, the second highest law officer of the Centre, representing the ED, told a bench presided over by Justice Sanjiv Khanna, that such statements are a direct “slap on the system” and he would like to place CM Kejriwal’s videos for the perusal of the apex court.

After the successful completion of two phases of Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan, the Election Commission (EC) is all set for counting of votes that will be done on June 4 and has directed setting up of 27 counting centres in the desert state, said officials on Wednesday.

EVMs with VVPAT machines used for the recently conducted Lok Sabha polls in Assam were kept in about 50 strongrooms across the state under strict security measures, said state Chief Election Officer Anurag Goel on Wednesday. He told that apart from 30,310 EVMs (ballot units) and 28,650 control units used for polling, an equal number of VVPATs are kept in these strongrooms and kept undisturbed under tight security. Goyal said that CCTV cameras have been installed inside and outside the strongrooms the footage of which will be directly monitored by District Election Officers.

Today there was a big commotion at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's house. On behalf of AAP, Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal called the Delhi Police and said that she was beaten up by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's PA. After this, a team of Delhi Police reached the Chief Minister's house. Giving information regarding this, DCP. Manoj Meena said that at 9:34 in the morning a PCR. A call was received on Civil Lines from a woman, who said that she was assaulted at the Chief Minister's residence. He said that after some time, MP Madam police station civil line came, but she left saying that she would file a complaint later.