# The Catch Up: Punjab CM Mann’s customs inspection (21 October)

An episode of [3 Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1406730235), 21 Oct 2026, 4:00.

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The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

## Transcript

[0:04] Speaker 1: This is the catch-up on three things by the Indian
[0:06] Speaker 1: Express and I'm Ichha Sharma. Today is the 21st of
[0:13] Speaker 1: October and here are today's headlines. Starting with update on
[0:18] Speaker 1: Tiger's show of shooting, Radha and Babita worked at showrooms
[0:22] Speaker 1: in Haryana's Sonipat, sending money to support their families. Last week,
[0:26] Speaker 1: the two travelled to Mumbai and allegedly handed over a
[0:29] Speaker 1: bag containing a pistol to a minor boy, a day
[0:32] Speaker 1: before shots were fired at Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff's car,
[0:36] Speaker 1: police said. The Delhi Police Special Cells North Range today
[0:40] Speaker 1: arrested Radha and Babita, aged 21, and two men, Kunal, 21,
[0:44] Speaker 1: and Sumit, 19, in connection with an alleged weapon supply
[0:48] Speaker 1: module linked to the firing at Shroff's car. Another major
[0:56] Speaker 1: news secretary of state, Marco Rubio's second visit to India
[0:59] Speaker 1: in less than five months comes at a crucial juncture
[1:03] Speaker 1: in India-U.S. ties, with the trade deal yet to be
[1:05] Speaker 1: finalized and about turns in Washington's tariff regime and its
[1:09] Speaker 1: dealing with Moscow keeping Delhi on the printer hooks. In
[1:13] Speaker 1: an exclusive interview with the Indian Express, Rubio describes the
[1:17] Speaker 1: ties between India and U.S.
[1:19] Speaker 2: As positive and the feature of our foreign policy.
[1:26] Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan was stopped for three
[1:30] Speaker 1: hours at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport yesterday and fined 50,000
[1:36] Speaker 1: by customs officials. Maan returning from Paris on an Air
[1:40] Speaker 1: France flight with his wife Dr. Gurpreet Kaur opted for
[1:44] Speaker 1: the Green Channel despite allegedly carrying items that required.
[1:48] Speaker 2: Clearance through the Red Channel.
[1:50] Speaker 1: After landing around 11pm, Mann and his wife went to
[1:53] Speaker 1: the VIP lounge while waiting for their luggage. After a
[1:56] Speaker 1: two-hour delay, officials informed them that customs had held their baggage.
[2:01] Speaker 1: Officials then escorted Mann to the customs enclosure, where they
[2:04] Speaker 1: opened and inspected his.
[2:06] Speaker 2: Luggage in his presence.
[2:11] Speaker 1: In other major news, Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das
[2:15] Speaker 1: and Ashutosh Ranka were released today following an order by
[2:19] Speaker 1: a special executive magistrate. Earlier in the day, the SEM
[2:23] Speaker 1: had reserved an order on their judicial remand after the
[2:26] Speaker 1: Delhi Police sought a three-day.
[2:28] Speaker 2: Extension of their custody. The two were produced.
[2:31] Speaker 1: Before the SCM and their surreptities were submitted during the proceedings.
[2:37] Speaker 1: Das and Ranka were initially remanded to five days of
[2:39] Speaker 1: judicial custody on 14 October after being detained for allegedly
[2:43] Speaker 1: entering the denotified protest site at Jantar Mantar and violating
[2:47] Speaker 1: peace bonds.
[2:53] Speaker 2: And in the end, we talk about RTI.
[2:54] Speaker 1: Records that were accessed by the Indian Express that show
[2:59] Speaker 1: that smuggled mobile phones have been recovered from inside Tihar jail,
[3:04] Speaker 1: which were hidden beneath potted plants and trees. stuck inside
[3:09] Speaker 1: toilet cisterns, shoved into water pipes inside RO water purifier
[3:14] Speaker 1: and even strapped on an inmate's back. There are 15
[3:18] Speaker 1: central jails in the complex, including six in Mandoli, and
[3:21] Speaker 1: together they house over 10,000 inmates.
[3:24] Speaker 2: Of these, only Central Jail No.
[3:26] Speaker 1: 3 responded to RTI queries from this newspaper on recovered
[3:31] Speaker 1: communication equipment, including VOIP sets, with details of each device's recovery.
[3:37] Speaker 1: In all, the jail provided details of 285 recoveries involving 350.
[3:43] Speaker 2: Mobile phones between 2020 and 2025. And with that, this
[3:51] Speaker 2: is all for today. This was the catch-up on three
[3:53] Speaker 2: things by the Indian Express.

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