Heavy rain lashed several parts of Delhi and NCR on Monday evening. The captial along with on-and-off drizzles had pleasant weather throughout the day.

Due to heavy rain during the office dispersal hour, traffic chaos covered the captial. Social media is swamped with Delhiites sharing visuals of the rain and jam-packed roads.

Earlier today, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert owing to rain, thunderstorm, and hailstorm in several parts of the city.

The bad weather conditions in Delhi also triggered the diversion of a total of 10 flights which were scheduled to land at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.

Among the 10 flights, three were diverted to Lucknow and seven to Jaipur.

IMD had also said rain coupled with hail and gusty winds of up to 40 km per hour in Delhi will be witnessed on Monday. It also advised people to stay indoors and not seek shelter under trees, as maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be around 26 and 16 degrees Celsius.

On Saturday, Delhi-NCR witnessed heavy rain with hailstorms taking the temperature to 25.3 degrees Celsius. As per the officials, the capital recorded the lowest temperature so far this month on Saturday.

Punjab maybe under a mobile internet shutdown since Saturday last but the Central government’s attempt to arrest Khalistani supporter Amritpal Singh reverbrated across the world with pro-Khalistan supporters attacking the Indian consulate in San Francisco, USA. This is despite the lack of mobile internet in Punjab.

In San Francisco, protesters sprayed graffiti on the consulate saying “Free Amritpal”. Close aides of the self-styled successor of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale are being rounded up and are being booked under tough statutes. The reflowering of the Khalistan call on Indian soil has been irking the government since the attack on a Punjab Police station by Amritpal and his hardline supporters.

Earlier in the day, the Indian High Commission in London saw the tricolour being lowered by Khalistani elements. This prompted a swift response from India on the London incident by summoning a senior British diplomat.

As per the reports, various videos of the Indian consulate attack by Pro-Khalistani supporters surfaced. The videos were reportedly recorded by the mob of attackers themselves. It was also reported that the mob of Khalistani attackers vandalised the Indian consulate building and damaged the glass windows.

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The episode transpired after few employees of the Indian consulate removed few Khalistani flag which was installed near the consulate building. Upon witnessing the flags being taken down by the employees, the protesting Khalistani supporters outside the consulate broke through the barricades and charged at the employees. The employees, however, were able to flee and rush into the Indian consulate house.

The agitated the supporters then went on to vandalise the Indian consulate building while loud Punjabi music was played in the background, said reports.

Indian High commission in London, after the episode of the Tricoulour was pulled down and replaced with Khalistani flag earlier, proceeded to install a huge Indian National flag in a bid to counter the pro-Khalistani supporters.
The move by the Indian High Commission in London was also lauded by many.

After the London incident transpired, the External Affairs ministry summoned British deputy high commisioner on Sunday seeking arrest and prosecutuion of the people invovled in the incident.

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A court in the national capital, Monday, extended the judicial custody of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by 14 days, till April 3.

Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on February 26 in connection with its ongoing probe into the purported Delhi excise policy ‘scam’ case.

The CBI told Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court that their investigation into the alleged scam is still pending and at a crucial stage which requires Sisodia’s further detention in judicial custody.

The development comes mere two days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was granted the AAP leader’s custody for five more days, till March 22.

On Friday last, 51-year-old Sisodia’s ED custody was extended by a court in Delhi till March 22. The ED had told the court that Sisodia was allegedly involved in “large-scale destruction of digital evidence to impede the investigation” and had purportedly changed and destroyed 14 phones.

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Manish Sisodia was arrested on March 9 by the ED while he was already lodged in Tihar jail in case against him by the CBI in connection with the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case.

A Delhi court last week extended the former Deputy CM’s custody by five days after the ED sought more time for investigating the charges.

The ED told the court that some vital information had come up during custody and he had to be confronted with the other accused.

After the court’s decision, senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Friday had claimed that central probe agencies don’t have any evidence, only “fabricated and malicious” stories against Sisodia.

Speaking at a presser, Chadha had accused the BJP of engaging in “politics of revenge” which he claimed was the reason behind Sisodia’s arrest. He had also claimed that the CBI and the ED don’t have any evidence against the former Deputy CM, adding that the probe agencies only questioned Sisodia for 15 hours during seven days of remand.

Chadha had claimed said the BJP was “scared” of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He further claimed that the probe agencies only have “concocted stories” against Sisodia, and when the CBI couldn’t find anything against him during their interrogation, they asked the ED to “frame more false cases.”

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