“Hope died, man died, justice lived,” commented Rishabh Sancheti, one of Yakub Memon’s advocates, about the early-morning, eleventh hour Supreme Court hearing that ultimately failed to save his client from the noose. “Have you (heard) it happen in any other country?”

The Bombay high court ordered the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) convenor RMLNLU Lucknow to institute a new expert committee of eminent persons from the profession to re-examine the objections raised against the CLAT 2015 question paper. Advocate Rishabh Sancheti, appearing for RMLNLU, said that t...