Varanasi field unit of UP STF arrests absconding murder accused Suresh Mishra alias Lal Bahadur after 16 years. Mishra confesses to stabbing Vinod Mishra in 2001 over a land dispute. Case registered under IPC sections 302, 323, 504. Mishra sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007, escapes in 2008. Nabbed at Varanasi Junction.
The court refused to grant parole to Shailendra Pandey, a convict in the fake encounter case of Lakhan Bhaiya. Lakhan Bhaiya was a close aide of gangster Chhota Rajan.