Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken his silence on the controversy surrounding abusive slogans raised during the student protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar over the alleged NEET paper leak. Addressing the issue, the Prime Minister said that "abuses never solve anything" and appealed for restraint and forgiveness instead of anger or retaliation. He said that while both he and his late mother were targeted with abusive language, he believes misguided youngsters should be guided rather than punished. The remarks come after a Zero FIR was registered against a young woman over allegedly objectionable remarks made during the protest. Amid the controversy, the woman has also publicly apologised.

A shocking case from Delhi has once again triggered outrage over women’s safety in the national capital. A 30-year-old factory worker was allegedly abducted and gang-raped inside a private sleeper bus in northwest Delhi’s Rani Bagh area while returning home from work late at night. According to police, the woman was allegedly pulled inside the Bihar-registered sleeper bus near Saraswati Vihar before being sexually assaulted by the driver and conductor as the vehicle travelled toward Nangloi.