The police case has been filed under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), with charges including kidnapping and gang-rape. The incident comes just days after a medical college student was allegedly raped near the institute by a male classmate in Durgapur, West Bengal.

The Indian Navy too had sailed into the Arabian sea, waiting to launch a response if the Pakistani side decided to take it any further, the DGMO revealed. “Indian Navy was also very much in action,” the DGMO said.

At least 20 people were killed and several others injured after a private bus on way to Jodhpur caught fire near Thaiyat village in Jaisalmer on Tuesday. Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma visited the site of the accident and expressed grief over the tragedy, as per an official statement.