Dear Express Explained reader, The CBI and Delhi Police, acting on accusations made by the Chief Secretary and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, have opened investigations against Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi. The CBI, which raided Sisodia's home on Friday, has accused him of corruption in the implementation of Delhi's now-scrapped excise policy, 2021-22, including conspiring with a liquor cartel to cause losses to the exchequer. Gayathri Mani, who has been leading our coverage on the story, summed up the allegations against Sisodia, based on what we know so far. The other big political story this week was the decision by the Gujarat government to remit the sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, one of the most horrific crimes committed during the riots of 2002. The remission, which provoked outrage, was granted on the basis of a Gujarat government policy that has now been changed, but which was in place at the time the incident and the convictions took place. A jurisdictional question over which government should decide on the plea for remission of the sentence - Gujarat, where the crime occurred, or Maharashtra, where the trial took place - had been settled by the Supreme Court a few months previously. Apurva Vishwanath, Aditi Raja, and Sohini Ghosh wrote a detailed explainer listing the facts of the case and the sequence of events, and unpacking the legal issues around the grant of remissions in cases such as this one. Amul and Mother Dairy this week announced an across-the-board increase of Rs 2 in the price of a litre of milk. While milk is consumed everywhere, what customers pay for it differs from city to city. Among the bigger cities of India, milk is the cheapest in Bengaluru. The reason for this is, to use an expression that is currently in political currency, "revadi" - a financial incentive that has been offered to dairy farmers in Karnataka by successive governments over almost a decade and a half. As Harish Damodaran explained, it is this "revadi" in milk that has, owing to natural demand-supply mechanisms of the market, ended up subsidising the consumers of the nation's IT capital. Do read. Speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, the Prime Minister asked the people to take "five vows", the first of which was to ensure that India becomes a "developed" country by 2047 - that is, over the next 25 years. Udit Misra analysed the task that lies before the nation in achieving that goal - where we stand now, especially in comparison to other countries, what the experience elsewhere in the world shows, and what are the challenges that lie ahead. Separately, Udit presented in his excellent ExplainSpeaking column 11 charts that show the trajectory that India has taken on a number of variables over the last 75 years of independence. Stay safe and stay aware. Keep reading The Indian Express Explained. Some of our content is now behind a paywall, so if you haven't subscribed to The Indian Express yet, this may be the perfect time to do so. Click here to subscribe. Sincerely, Monojit (monojit.majumdar@expressindia.com) If you received this newsletter as a forward, you can subscribe to it here | Do read our Explained articles here | 
