All, Finally found the cause of the issue I had reported a few weeks back:
Anupam> Looks like M-RET (`org-insert-heading`), and it's equivalent Anupam> M-S-RET (`org-insert-todo-heading`) are behaving a little Anupam> erratically when invoked from the _end_ of a heading that Anupam> has a property drawer. [...] Anupam> behavior when M-RET is invoked from the _end_ of the line Anupam> is: Anupam> *** A Heading with a Drawer Anupam> :PROPERTIES: Anupam> :CATEGORY: TEST Anupam> :END: Anupam> *** <----- The second item's outline Anupam> ^^^ Note that the second item's outline got indented, Anupam> and has leading spaces (indented?) Basically, the issue is that there is a bad interplay with the `electric-indent-mode`, which is causing the additional indentation to be added during the invocation of `org-insert-heading`. Apologies for the noise, and hopefully this helps someone. It might be useful to add this minor mode in the list of conflicts in the manual also. Regards, -- Anupam