The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
Cartoonist Aravinda Tegginamath shows the long-winding path of justice that took more than three decades for the Delhi High Court to convict Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for criminal conspiracy in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, and hints that the 2002 Gujarat riots cases could face a similar fate.
In The Indian Express, E.P. takes a dig at the Centre for pointing out to the Supreme Court that it misinterpreted the documents on the Rafale deal that were submitted in a sealed envelope. The government had moved an application seeking a correction in the court order, saying it never misled the SC on the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report and that there was only a “typing error”.
The Asian Age’s Gokul Gopalakrishnan, too, refers to the documents submitted in a sealed cover by the government in the Supreme Court on Rafale, and suggests that the problem with these is that they could turn out to be empty inside.
Midday’s Manjul suggests that “Satyamev Jayate” comes with a disclaimer, i.e., “errors and omissions excepted”, taking a dig at the Centre’s “typing error” remark over Rafale.
R. Prasad takes a jibe at Hindutva mascot Yogi Adityanath’s mocking Rahul Gandhi for flaunting his sacred thread, or ‘janeu’, and ‘gotra’, and suggests Gandhi is playing the BJP’s game with soft Hindutva.
Hemant Morparia takes a crack at a food delivery-man who was seen eating from the parcel he was meant to deliver. The video had gone viral on the Internet.
Cartoonist Nala Ponnappa takes a dig at the new regulations laid out by the governing committee of a residential apartment complex in Bengaluru for its pet owners.