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Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and the Opposition’s chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav has dismissed exit polls that projected a victory for the ruling National Democratic Alliance in the Bihar Assembly elections. He also claimed that the predictions were made public even as voting was still underway in some areas.

Yadav alleged that the surveys were conducted under pressure from officials on election duty. “The feedback we are getting is that the BJP and the NDA are left sweating,” he said.

The votes will be counted on Friday. The Election Commission has said that the voter turnout in the Assembly elections was a record 66.9% – highest in the state since 1951. Read on.

Read Scroll’s ground reports from Bihar here.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police raided over 300 locations in the Valley allegedly linked to persons affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami. The police have also interrogated around 500 persons allegedly affiliated with banned organisations, and shifted several of them to the District Jail Mattan in Anantnag under preventive detention laws.

The development comes against the backdrop of the police claiming that they had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Haryana’s Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, and a car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort metro station that left 13 dead.

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have not linked the terror module and blast cases with the ongoing raids. Read on.

Two doctors and a terror cell: What J&K police action before Delhi car blast revealed

The Gurugram Police has asked residential societies to submit a list of residents from Jammu and Kashmir and foreign citizens living there, a day after a blast in Delhi killed 13 persons. “It is for security purposes,” Vishnu Prasad, assistant police commissioner for Gurugram city told Scroll while adding that it was a routine check.

“We are inquiring about who has come from where and for how long they have been staying here,” he further said. Read on.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that five persons in the state have been arrested for spreading “offensive and inflammatory content online” after the blast in Delhi. Those arrested were Mattiur Rahman from Darrang, Hassan Ali Mondal from Goalpara, Abdul Latif from Chirang, Wajhul Kamal from Kamrup and Nur Amin Ahmed from Bongaigaon.

“Assam Police will continue to act swiftly and firmly against anyone misusing social media to spread hatred or glorify terror,” Sarma said.

A day prior, the Assam Police had detained a retired school principal in Cachar district for suggesting an apparent connection between the blast in Delhi and the Bihar Assembly elections. Read on.

Air pollution in Delhi remained in the “severe” category with an air quality index of 418, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board. As of 5.07 pm, air quality was “severe” or worse in 32 out of 39 monitoring stations in the capital.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court directed the governments of Punjab and Haryana to file status reports on the measures taken to curb stubble burning, which continues to contribute to the worsening air pollution in Delhi-NCR. Read on.

Delhi’s failure to act against the biggest source of its air pollution – vehicles

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