The SAD named Raj Singh Dibbipura as its candidate for the bypoll to the Jalalabad Assembly seat in Punjab. The seat fell vacant after party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal resigned from the Punjab Assembly following his election to the Lok Sabha from the Ferozepur parliamentary constituency this year. The SAD has already announced Manpreet Singh Ayali as its candidate for the Dakha assembly seat.

The Delhi HC declined to entertain a-plea-seeking direction to the Centre to frame-guidelines for registration of FIR for marital-rape as also laws for making it a ground for divorce. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari-Shankar disposed of the PIL saying court cannot direct framing of laws as it is the domain of the legislature and not the judiciary.

A woman has been booked for plotting the murder of her husband in Greater-Noida after he refused to give her a divorce, police said today. The body of man, Rupendra Singh Chandel, was found with gun shot wounds inside his car on April-28 near Gaur City, they said. "She had also offered to pay Rs.3-lakh to Omvir Singh for the job," police official said.