The CBI filed a chargesheet against former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Motilal Vora in connection with the alleged irregularities in the re-allotment of an institutional plot in Panchkula, Haryana to the Associated Journals Limited. In the chargesheet, the CBI alleged that AJL was allotted a plot of land in Panchkula in 1982, on which no construction took place till 1992.

A jeweller was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Haryana's Ambala city on Friday, police said.The jeweller was identified as Sunil Kumar, they said. Three motorcycle-borne men opened fire at Kumar in Sarafa Bazaar area, where many jewellery-shops are located, at around 8pm on Friday. He sustained three bullet injuries, police said. The attackers managed to flee after the incident, the police said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has sparked a fresh controversy over his remarks on rape incidents. At a function in Kalka town of Panchkula district on Friday, he said, "The incidents of rape have not increased... Rapes used to take place in the past and even today as well. (Only) the concern (over such incidents) has increased."