The Catch Up: 22 March

3 Things

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 22nd of March and here are the top stories of the week.
A 12-member team of the Enforcement Directorate arrested Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at his residence in North Delhi’s Civil Lines on Thursday. The ED team reached his residence and began questioning after Delhi HC refused to grant CM Arvind Kejriwal protection from coercive action in excise policy case earlier today. Meanwhile, the Delhi CM moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing challenging the Delhi HC order.
The Election Commission of India on Thursday published the complete electoral bond data given to it by the State Bank of India on orders of the Supreme Court. This data includes bond numbers that would enable donors to be matched with the political parties they donated to. The two sets of data – 552 pages of details of redemption by political parties and 386 pages of details of donors – covers electoral bonds purchased and redeemed from April 2019 till January 2024 – in line with the apex court’s orders.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its third list of nine candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. Tamilisai Soundararajan, who resigned as the Governor of Telangana on Monday (March 18) will contest from Chennai South, while Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai has been fielded from Coimbatore. The Congress also released the third list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, consisting of 56 candidates from eight states and Union Territories. Among the key candidates to be fielded are Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Berhampore, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna from Gulbarga and former Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s daughter Praniti Shinde from Solapur.
The Supreme Court on Thursday halted the implementation of the Centre's notification concerning the Press Information Bureau's Fact Checking Unit (FCU). This halt will remain in place until the Bombay High Court reaches a final verdict on petitions contesting the 2023 modifications to the Information Technology Rules. The bench highlighted that the Centre had provided assurance to the HC that the FCU would not be activated until the petitions challenging Rule 3(1)(b)(v) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules 2023 (IT Amendment Rules, 2023) are resolved by the HC.
Initially stating that Zomato's proposal for a separate delivery fleet for vegetarian food received an "overwhelmingly positive" response, co-founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal reversed course in less than 11 hours on Wednesday. The company has now abandoned plans to segregate the fleet based on individuals' dietary preferences. Worries regarding the potential for harassment stemming from the division of workers into green and red uniforms have prompted Zomato to retract the green attire.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.