The day was dominated by PM Modi's Instagram video forgiving the youth who abused him during the Jantar Mantar protests, calling them 'misguided children' and urging society to guide them. This message saturated headlines across outlets, reframing the protest narrative from a law-and-order crisis to a paternalistic call for unity. Earlier, the Supreme Court questioned the exclusion of the CJI from the CEC selection panel, while the anti-paper leak bill received presidential assent. In the afternoon, Tahir Hussain was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma, with the court describing the crime as 'nauseatingly sickening.' By evening, editors shifted to historic Commonwealth Games judo golds by Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh, and a terror attack in Kulgam that killed a migrant worker.