Articles tagged with: Dhanapal Raj

BTW: Better late than never, Hindu covers story of 3 corrupt BCI members jailed

Just FYI, more than one month after a CBI court convicted three Bar Council of India (BCI) members to jail and after a PTI report on the judgment, The Hindu on 25 August 2016 is now the only mainstream media outlet (other than http://www.livemint.com/Politics/oS1IH3Hf1bc5dSMmD4fYVP/Bribery-case-exposes-the-rot-in-legal-education.html Mint) to have done a news story:

Explained: How 3 corrupt BCI officials were jailed (and how their attempt to blame Gopal Subramanium for it failed) [READ JUDGMENT]

Rajinder Singh Rana, Dhanapal Raj, Milan Kumar Dey
Rajinder Singh Rana, Dhanapal Raj, Milan Kumar Dey

In May 2010, then-prime minister Manmohan Singh made a few headlines by saying what nearly every lawyer and educator in the country knew to be true: he called Indian legal education a “sea of institutionalised mediocrity”, dotted with a few “islands of excellence”.