Kangana Ranaut, the newly elected BJP MP from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, accused a CISF security officer at Chandigarh Airport of slapping her during her journey to Delhi.
According to Ranaut, the alleged incident occurred as she proceeded to the boarding area after clearing security check. Ranaut claimed that the CISF officer, Kulwinder Kaur, stationed at the frisking area, engaged in a verbal altercation with her before slapping her.
Sources suggest that Ranaut's remarks about women in Punjab during the farmers' agitation might have triggered the altercation.
Following the incident, constable Kulvinder Kaur was suspended with immediate effect.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, legal expert Harish Salve discussed the constitutional crisis in West Bengal following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign despite losing her seat and the decisive mandate against her party.
An India Today ground report from Tehran details the ongoing conflict, its impact on the city's infrastructure and how Iranians have gathered at Enghelab Square to demonstrate solidarity and unity amid war.
The Congress state unit in Tamil Nadu held an online meeting and decided to extend support to TVK. Congress is seeking a power-sharing agreement and is likely to demand two cabinet portfolios, along with a few board and corporation chairman posts, and other government roles such as trust members and directors.
Watch as India Today's Geeta Mohan brings this exclusive ground report from Iran's fourteenth-century Golestan Palace, which was damaged during the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran.
