The verdict for the Kathua rape case was pronounced today, with the court sentencing three of the six accused to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua; West Bengal's governor briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on the ground situation in the state over continuing political violence there; A journalist, arrested for allegedly maligning the image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days with his wife moving the Supreme Court saying the arrest was unfair; Delhi records the highest ever temperature in June at 48 degrees amid the heat wave which swept across north India.
