Glasgow’s mistaken identity case, Punjab poll battle, Ram Temple SIT probe: Today’s Premium reads

Written by: Express Web Desk

1. Two decades after a rape-murder in Glasgow, police showed up at Sougat Mukherjee’s door in India, certain they’d found their man. What followed was an arrest, a slide into depression, and a clearance that came years too late — the story of what mistaken identity actually costs. Sophiya Mathew reports.
2. Punjab heads to the polls early next year, and every major party is running scared: AAP is fighting anti-incumbency, Congress is chasing a comeback, SAD is trying to reinvent itself, and BJP still hasn’t found a foothold. Liz Mathew maps the fight in a state known for upending predictions.
3. An SIT probe into donation theft at the Ram Temple found CCTV blind spots, loosened frisking rules, and a cash-counting system built to fail. Bhupendra Pandey and Manish Sahu break down what the report found — and, in a companion piece, Deeptiman Tiwary tells you why the Trust running it operates unlike any other major temple body in India.
4. C Raja Mohan writes on the emerging ‘G Minus Two’ Indo-Pacific order: as the US and China harden their rivalry, the region’s balance may come down to its middle powers — India and Indonesia chief among them.