Overnight preventive detention of CJP's Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka over breaching barricades into denotified Jantar Mantar ended in five days' judicial custody in Tihar, while Ajinkya Shinde was released on a peace bond. Rahul Gandhi for the first time openly backed the CJP pair, vowed to reclaim Jantar Mantar with Kejriwal and others, presented injured NSUI protesters alleging beatings, as police detained fresh Youth Congress, SFI and DYFI marchers and Dipke called a Lehra Do Tiranga gathering at Connaught Place on October 16 ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on SIR on October 15.
A Meerut court sentenced Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla to death for the March 2025 murder of Saurabh Rajput, whose dismembered body was sealed in a cement-filled blue drum.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi later joined Ankita Bhandari's parents protesting at India Gate against Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor.