The Supreme Court and the West Bengal Commission for Women today took suo motu cognisance of Monday’s alleged gang-rape of a 20-year-old tribal woman in the state’s Birbhum district, reported Zee News and IANS respectively. However the state human rights commission failed to act because it is missin...

SC wants life sentence for milk-tampering The SC has asked state governments to make laws that punish with life in prison the selling and production of adulterated milk injurious to humans [ TOI ] Kalam faces faulty voting machine Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was yesterday temporarily among the ...

Nokia $1bn tax settlement rejected Nokia faces tax liabilities as its offer to settle Rs 6,500 crore liability with Rs 2,250 crore has been rejected by the tax department [ NDTV Profit ] Delhi ‘11 HC blast accused claims wrongfully charged The accused in the September 2011 Delhi HC blasts asked the ...

A permanent office for the 11 year old IPAB (Intellectual Property Appellate Board) is now finally in the works in Kovalam, near Chennai, as the state has also invited applications to fill up its vacancies – after pressure from advocates pointing out its mounting workload [ Business Standard ] Judge...

Karanjawala & Co is advising Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal who allegedly sexually assaulted a junior journalist at the magazine. Tejpal today moved the Delhi high court for anticipatory bail after the Goa police charged him with rape on Friday, according to the Express . Kara...

Lawyer myths: NLSIU Bangalore grad and Singapore’s Nanyang Tech B-school lecturer Krishna Udayasankar has penned down a mythological trilogy – the Aryavarta Chronicles. Interview by [ Bangalore Mirror ] TOI didn’t defame: The Times of India is off the hook for criminal defamation after the Madras HC...

The Delhi bar council complaint against the December 16 rape convicts’ lawyer AP Singh was transferred to the BCI, which on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to Singh, reported the Hindu . Singh had made sexist remarks to the media outside the Saket trial court that had convicted his clients, clai...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani faced the ire of social groups and Twitter users after arguing that the girl who had charged his client Asaram Bapu with rape, was suffering from a chronic disease “which draws a woman to a man” and that her entire case, including her age, was fabricated, reported the ...

Advocate AP Singh, who represented two of the four gang rapists who were sentenced to death last week for the December 2012 murder of a student, said that he was pressured by an “anti-social element” to say that he would burn his daughter alive if he caught her out late at night with a boyfriend or ...

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...

Delhi gang rapists guilty: Four men were convicted of raping and killing a woman in December 2012 by Judge Yogesh Khanna in Saket’s district court. The sentencing arguments – anticipated to be for the death penalty – will begin tomorrow. The men’s lawyer AP Singh said they would appeal the verdict [...

Due indiligence: GLC Mumbai and New College Mumbai students could miss the 25 July Bar Exam because their law schools have not yet paid the Bar Council of India affiliation fee. GLC fixing problem at the moment… [ Mumbai Mirror / Bar & Bench ] Judicial eviction: According to SC guidelines frame...

India sides with Obama : Salman Khursheed, former law minister, defends US spies’ electronic snooping , saying it’s not “snooping” and “only computer analysis of patterns of calls and e-mails sent”. Minister gets slammed by rivals [ Hindu ] Niche education : Law colleges have increasingly started of...

The 21-year old NLSIU Bangalore student who was allegedly raped near the law school’s campus by eight men in October has discontinued her studies at NLSIU and returned to her native city, according to the New Indian Express . Dr H Chandrashekar, the Bangalore Medical College’s head of department of ...

Anti-rape law passed Rajya Sabha in only two hours with promises to remove loopholes later: Rape remains gender specific crime, age of consent remains 18, death sentences in some cases & more [ Hindu on bill’s passage / TOI on substance of law ] Italy has promised to return its two marines, who...

Breaking & exclusive: NLSIU Bangalore faculty and alumnus Sidharth Chauhan was yesterday dismissed from service, little over a month after he wrote to vice-chancellor (VC) R Venkata Rao criticising his non-consultative manner of imposing a 9pm ban on opening the law school gates.

Delhi advocate VK Anand is representing the main accused in the 16 December Delhi gang-rape, after urgings from his son, an IP University Delhi law student. The brother of the main accused is represented by activist lawyer ML Sharma , while advocate AP Singh is representing two other accused. Advoca...

Public interest litigation (PIL) activist lawyer ML Sharma, who is defending three of the six Delhi rape-accused in Delhi’s Saket district court, said in an interview that he had never heard of a “respected lady” being raped, and that the rape victim’s male companion was “wholly responsible” for the...

Lawyers offering to defend the five accused in the December Delhi gang rape case, who will stand trial in a special Saket fast-track court, faced heckles from other lawyers in court yesterday, which is considering making the proceedings private. The New York Times wrote: “Tens of lawyers, many of th...

The Saket Bar Association has resolved that its 2,500 members must not represent the six Delhi men accused of the rape and murder in order to ensure “speedy justice”, as the court’s fast-track court that will hear the case will be inaugurated today.