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In today’s featured cartoon, PenPencilDraw comments on the central government’s submission before the Supreme Court over a clutch of petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Sandeep Adhwaryu too draws on the central government’s opposition to same-sex marriages, while also alluding to the NCRB’s data from 2017 which revealed that the accused were known to the victims in 93.1 per cent of rape cases reported that year.
Referring to the NCP’s symbol (an alarm clock), E.P. Unny gives his take on party chief Sharad Pawar dismissing speculation about nephew Ajit Pawar’s overtures to the BJP.
Sajith Kumar showcases the incident from Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao where an 11-year-old rape survivor’s house was allegedly set ablaze by the accused, endangering her infant son and her two-month-old sister.
Kirtish Bhatt pokes fun at Fox News’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in a defamation case. The American voting machine manufacturer had sued the Rupert Murdoch-owned news network for its misleading coverage of the 2020 US presidential election. In the illustration, an Indian news anchor is heard exclaiming, “Is it so expensive to run false news in foreign countries?!”