Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the former Chief of Air Staff R K S Bhadauria on Sunday joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawde.

Addressing the press after joining the BJP, he extended his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda and others for giving him an opportunity to join the BJP and contribute towards nation-building.

The former Chief of Air Staff further said that he served the IAF for more than four decades, but the best time of his service was the last eight years under the leadership of the BJP government.

The tough steps taken by this government to empower and modernise Indian armed forces and make them self-reliant have not only given rise to a new capability in the forces but also given them a new confidence, the newly-joined BJP leader said.

The results of the self-reliant move by the government can be seen on the ground, he added. From the point of view of security, the steps being taken by the government are very important and will take India to new heights globally, Bhadauria said after joining the party.

Notably, Bhadauria joined the BJP nearly two-and-a-half years after he retired from the post in the armed forces. 

Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria served as the 23rd Chief of the Air Force from September 30, 2019, to September 30, 2021. He hails from Bah tehsil in the Agra district. According to reports, the BJP is considering offering him the opportunity to represent Ghaziabad as their Lok Sabha candidate.

However, the current Lok Sabha MP from Ghaziabad is military veteran General VK Singh, who has won the seat twice, first in 2014 and again in 2019. The BJP is yet to announce its candidates for the Ghaziabad seat, despite releasing four lists of candidates so far.

In a shocking incident, a man from Delhi was arrested on Sunday for stabbing a girl multiple times with a knife in the Mukherjee Nagar area in broad daylight. The incident was captured on CCTV and has been shared widely on the internet.

According to reports, the incident took place on March 22. The passers-by intervened and tried to stop and catch the accused. Although, the girl did not suffer grievous injuries in this attack and is out of danger.

The police have identified the accused as Aman. In the CCTV footage, the 22-year-old could be seen stabbing the girl with the knife several times.

It has been known that students in Mukherjee Nagar used to make fun of the accused, Aman, and call him mentally ill as he used to keep roaming in the area, without doing anything.

The woman he targeted would visit Mukherjee Nagar to study in a library. In the surveillance video, the man can be observed sprinting towards the woman, forcefully knocking her down, and subsequently striking her several times.

The man who is under arrest told the police that she ridiculed him, causing him to take a knife from a nearby vegetable vendor and launch an attack on her in a fit of rage.

Last year in April, another incident was reported from Northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar where a man killed his live-in partner and dumped her body 12 lm away from a house with the help of his sister.

Police, later, found the body of Rohina Naz alias Mahi, a resident of Uttarakhand’s Mirajpur, lying near Krishna Public School. The police arrested the sister of the accused in this case.

According to the police, the accused, identified as Vineet, was on the run while his sister Parul was arrested for helping him conspire the murder and hide the body.

The 25-year-old Mahi and Vineet eloped four years ago the date of the crime and were living together in Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police Joy Tirkey had said that Mahi was pressuring him for marriage and because of this, the couple used to fight frequently.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday moved High Court challenging his arrest and the order of remand passed by the trial court on Friday, March 22. The plea in Delhi High Court stated that both the arrest and the remand order are illegal and Kejriwal is entitled to be released from custody immediately.

The High Court denied an urgent listing of the plea filed by AAP convener Kejriwal. The matter will be now listed on Wednesday, as per reports.

According to the Delhi Chief Minister’s legal team, an immediate hearing has been sought from the acting Chief Justice, Justice Manmohan, preferably by March 24.

On March 21, Kejriwal was interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the Delhi CM’s residence in the 2021-2022 Delhi liquor policy case. During ED’s search operation, Kejriwal was arrested amidst dramatic circumstances as the AAP chief failed to obtain interim protection from arrest in the Delhi excise policy case from the Delhi High Court earlier.

The city court on March 22 granted seven days of custody of Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal to ED till March 28 for Kejriwal’s detailed and sustained interrogation regarding his role in the alleged Delhi excise policy case.

The Delhi CM on March 22 withdrew his petition in the apex court against his arrest by the ED, as the party decided to contest the ED custody first.

Earlier in the day, Delhi Minister Atishi said that ED has failed to establish a money trail against any AAP leader despite multiple raids, arrests and a two-year-long investigation into the alleged liquor policy scam.

During the press conference, Atishi claimed that the money trail was in fact found in the BJP’s account and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ED to arrest the BJP national president JP Nadda.  

The AAP leader also said that P Sarath Chandra Reddy, head of Aurobindo Pharma, was arrested by the ED in November in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. He has donated crores of money to the BJP through electoral Bonds, Atishi claimed.