The Delhi High Court on 23 June blocked 472 websites, but later updated its John Doe order to only block 219 websites, for alleged copyright violation, reported Medianama . The order, which came on the complaint of FIFA 2014 broadcasting rights owner Multi Screen Media, was only implemented in July....

A Mumbai court yesterday sentenced the convict in lawyer Pallavi Purakayastha’s murder to life imprisonment, reported the ANI . The 25-year-old in house counsel and ILS Pune grad was stabbed in the throat in her Mumbai flat in August 2012 by her apartment complex’ watchman. The convict – 22-year-old...

Newschannel IndiaTV ’s producers Rajat Sharma and Ritu Dhawan sent a defamation notice to their former employee Tanu Sharma who had made sexual harassment allegations against the channel and its senior executive Anita Sharma, reported the Caravan ’s online publication, Vantage . The notice states: “...

After threatening to sue the authors and publishers of the book Gas Wars – Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis in April for Rs 100 crore, Reliance Industries (RIL) yesterday issued a press release to announce the release of a 56-page presentation and promotional video.

A woman judge in Aligarh was allegedly raped at her official residence and escaped attempted murder on Monday, reported the IANS . A case of rape was registered at the civil lines police station in the city on the complaint of the victim’s brother, however a medical examination was not conducted unt...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal who taken into custody after he, on principle , refused to pay Rs 10,000 bail in Nitin Gadkari’s defamation case against him, was released today after he furnished the bail bond, reported IANS . Kejriwal paid bail after he was told by the court not to mak...

A Mumbai resident’s anticipatory bail application for arrest under hate speech laws was rejected, after his anti-Modi Facebook posts led to an FIR against him under sections 153(A), 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 125 of the People’s Representation Act and 66-A of the Information T...

Despite the BCI chairman’s recent ringing personal but apparently representative endorsement of Narendra Modi, lawyers will have to make their own choice this election. LI tries to help.

An in-depth look at issues and data in the difficult journey of the Women’s Reservation Bill in India [The 545: A Brief History (Or The Lack Thereof) Of Women In Parliament]

A CBI court today convicted dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the year 2008 murder of their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj Banjade, reported the Hindustan Times . The couple will be sentenced tomorrow for murder (section 302 IPC), destruction of evidence (s 201...

Tarun Tejpal, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the weekly Tehelka, has “recused” himself from his position for six months, after an allegation of him repeatedly sexually assaulting a junior journalist at the magazine.

The ghost of Nortel, whose 6000+ telecoms patents Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson and Sony bought for $4.5bn in 2011 and resurrected as a no-asset company called Rockstar Bidco, has sued Google and Android smartphone makers in six Texas patent infringement suits [ArsTechnica]

The four men convicted in the 16 December Delhi gang rape case have been handed the death sentence at 2:30PM today for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student. They were also handed the maximum sentence under every section of the Indian Penal Code they were convicted under, reported the...

The 63-point letter by solicitors Bindmans LLP, republished by The Guardian , seeks a declaration that the detention at Heathrow airport of David Miranda – the cohabiting partner of journalist Glenn Greewald who has been covering US and UK security services’ online spying operations – was unlawful. ...

Partner of the Guardian journalist whose reportage recently exposed the US’ National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass-surveillance programs, yesterday joined the 0.05 per cent detenu minority to be held up at an airport for over six hours under the Terrorism Act 2000 by the UK police, reported the Guard...

Dalit Scholar Kamal Bharti was arrested after making allegedly derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan in a Facebook post about suspended bureaucrat Durga Shakti Nagpal, reported the PTI . Bharti had posted that Nagpal was arrested for ordering the demolition of a mosque wall, bu...

US security agencies have direct access to non-US-based users’ data on internet services run by companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Microsoft, Apple and others, according to a secret document leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. Under the surveillance programme dubbed...

Political party BJP yesterday expelled India’s oldest active lawyer and former law minister Ram Jethmalani from its primary membership for six years, over alleged anti-party comments made by him. [ BS ] Jethmalani called the decision of the party “stupid” and analogous to “committing suicide”. BJP h...

Telecom minister Kapil Sibal is the fifth law minister in less than five years after Ashwini Kumar resigned from the post on Friday.

Right to Information (RTI) requests can now be submitted online to the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT), after the National Informatics Centre built web portal rtionline.gov.in to submit RTI Act 2005 queries. Facilities of the portal, currently in its first phase, include first appeals als...