An 18-year-old girl was found dead at a girl’s hostel in Mumbai’s Churchgate area on Tuesday night. Police said it is suspected the woman was sexually assaulted, but it can only be ascertained after the autopsy report is available.

The door to the hostel room was locked from outside, police had to break open the door and found her dead with a stole around her neck. Police have registered an FIR against the accused under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 376 (rape), and an investigation is underway.

The main suspect, the hostel guard in this case, was found dead on a railway track near Charni road station on Tuesday. The body of the 30-year-old guard, identified as Om Prakash Kanaujia, has been sent to GT Hospital for post-mortem. The suspect was working for 15 years at the Savitri Phule Women’s Hostel near the Police Gymkhana in South Mumbai.

Police have also found that a woman hostel staff has been missing, attempts were made to trace her but it was found that she had also committed suicide by jumping in front of a suburban local at Marine Drive station near the hostel. Her body has been identified by her father and sent the body for post-mortem. Police officials said they are investigating other hostel members to get to the root of this case. With three deaths, two of them suicides and one case of suspicious death of the girl, the case is finding itself in complicated territory.

The 18-year-old girl hailed from Vidarbha in Maharashtra, she was studying in the government polytechnic college in suburban Bandra.  She was untraceable since Tuesday afternoon and her hostel room on the fourth floor was locked from the outside.

According to reports, former Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot may soon deliver a significant blow to the Congress by launching his own party in Rajasthan just before polls in the state.

Sachin Pilot has made headlines for weeks by staying firm on his demand for action against alleged corruption during the previous Vasundhara Raje government and embarrassing his own party. He alleged that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had not taken any action against Vasundhara Raje because of a pact with the BJP leader, a charge that the BJP has strongly refuted.

The reports claim that Pilot is not happy with the outcome of his meeting last week with CM Gehlot, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, and Rahul Gandhi as it did not resolve the ‘core issues’.

Since the Congress party made government in Rajasthan in 2018, Ashok Gehlot and the former Chief Minister have been engaged in a power tussle, and the party is seeking to maintain peace between the two ahead of the assembly elections in the state.

There is intense speculation that on June 11, his father’s death anniversary, Sachin Pilot may indicate his way forward. Leaders close to Pilot said he has taken a ‘principled position,” and it is not about posts. His top priorities are corruption and the issue of paper leaks.

Pilot’s three demands are to probe corruption charges during the Vasundhara Raje regime, disband the Rajasthan Public Service Commission, and compensate those affected by government job exam paper leak cases.

Murari Lal Meena, Minister of State for Agriculture and Marketing, is supervising the preparation of the program marking Rajesh Pilot’s death anniversary.

Last Thursday, Congress said that the party is supreme and that they will fight the Rajasthan Assembly polls unitedly.

However, the state minister, Murari Lal Meena, who is also closed to Pilot has denied the speculation of formation of a new party saying that he does not see any substance of such speculation and works following the ideology of the party.

The Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, said today that the government has invited wrestlers who are protesting against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexual harassment to a meeting to hear their concerns.

Thakur tweeted, the Centre is ready to talk about the concerns once again and that he has invited the protesters for a meeting. He added, the government is open to discussing the wrestlers’ issue.

The government is willing to have a discussion with the wrestlers on their issues.

I have once again invited the wrestlers for the same.

— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) June 6, 2023

Meanwhile, in reference to Brij Bhushan Singh’s detention, he said, neither we are saving anyone, nor would we want to save anyone. The Indian government will do a fair probe. We will not give up on this, he added.

Union Minister took the decision of meeting to wrestlers just days after wrestlers met Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence in Delhi,  to discuss action against Brij Bhushan Singh.

However, wrestlers were asked not to say anything outside of the meeting. Olympian Bajrang Punia said, Amit Shah has said them that a fair probe is underway.

According to the reports, during the late-night meeting, Amit Shah met with Bajrang  Punia, Sakshee Malikkh, Sangita Phogat, and Satyawart Kadian.

Among the protesting wrestlers, there are seven women, including a minor who have accused Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of harassing them sexually. The wrestlers have called for an unbiased investigation and prompt action against the head of the wrestling organisation.

In relation to Singh’s sexual harassment case, the Delhi Police has spoken with a number of people. According to sources, three to four federation members have been questioned, and the police have also reportedly summoned several staff members at Singh’s Delhi home for questioning.