The day began with the Supreme Court ordering the release of minor student protesters and barring coercive action, a direct rebuke to the police crackdown on the CJP movement. Parliament then convened to debate the anti-paper leak bill after a week-long deadlock. The session quickly escalated when Congress leaders Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi launched a personal attack on newly appointed Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, calling him a 'defender of rapists' over his past comments on the Bilkis Bano case. This triggered uproar and demands for an apology from the BJP, overshadowing the bill's substance. By evening, the CBI filed its first chargesheet against 13 accused in the NEET-UG paper leak, while the CJP threatened to resume protests if FIRs against agitators were not withdrawn, claiming the government had reneged on its deal.