The protesters demanded the resignation of Tripura CM Biplab Deb over the state's alleged failure to protect Muslim minorities as well as the deafening silence of the BJP leadership. 

There can be no reiteration that the state owes its responsibilities' in the maintenance of law and order and in 'providing citizens with the security to protect their life, livelihood as well as their properties,' the HC said.

The Congress accused former CAG Vinod Rai on Friday of being a conspirator to destabilise the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government and demanded that he apologise to the nation for doing so.

Anti-Muslim violence gripped Tripura after RSS affiliate VHP took out Hunkar Rally on Tuesday. The fact-finding committee will submit its report to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik also reiterated that the entire operation on the cruise ship on October 2, during which actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan was held among others, was "fake".

The NCB on Wednesday recorded Wankhede's statement for more than four hours in connection with allegations of extortion levelled by Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the Aryan Khan drugs case.

Shah Rukh Khan's son, along with Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha, are expected to be released no earlier than Friday or Saturday.

Pune police have detained Kiran Gosavi, an independent witness of NCB in the drugs-on-cruise case, in connection with a 2018 cheating case registered against him in Maharashtra, officials said.

NCB official Sameer Wankehde had moved Bombay HC seeking transfer of probe initiated against in an extortion case by Mumbai Police to CBI or National Investigation Agency.

While granting a conditional bail to the trio, Justice N.W. Sambre passed the operative order and the detailed order is expected on Friday.