Justice AK Ganguly resigned as West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman today , reported IBN Live citing sources. Ganguly reportedly met West Bengal governor MK Narayanan in Kolkata to submit his resignation. Senior counsel and ex-attorney general Soli Sorabjee told The Hindu yesterday that Gang...

LI reporter Prachi Shrivastava argues that, to date, the pillars of the Indian constitution have been remarkably efficient and fair in the investigation and reporting of the sexual harassment allegations against former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly.

The Delhi high court today issued notice in the Supreme Court’s letters patent appeal against the 16 December decision by a single Delhi high court judge that the apex court’s method of selecting judicial clerks was unconstitutional.

Supreme Court Justice Gyan Sudha Misra is not available today (6 January) and the matters scheduled in court number 10, where she would have been presiding with Justice V Gopala Gowda, have been postponed to Wednesday 8 January [ SC notice PDF]. Gowda, however, will take in-chamber matters today at ...

The Union cabinet has greenlit the proposed presidential reference to remove West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman AK Ganguly, for allegedly having sexually harassed an intern. President Pranab Mukherjee will now be able to take a call on whether the reference to remove Ganguly under the Huma...

Twelve faculty members of NUJS Kolkata, the alma mater of the former student who accused retired Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly of sexual harassment during her internship a year ago, have issued a statement in her support.

As former Justice AK Ganguly wrote an 8-page letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) earlier today questioning the charges against him and implying a political conspiracy, the intern (“SJ”) who alleged she was sexually harassed by him after his retirement, has made a public statement of her own q...

The way will soon be clear for the President to ask for an inquiry into sex harassment allegations against the ex-judge. Question is, how, if at all, would it stick under law?

As Goolam Vahanvati will submit a legal opinion by tomorrow on the presidential reference to remove AK Ganguly from the WBHRC, Legally India has seen a copy of the inquiry’s report, which is not confidential anymore.

The government would request the removal of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman AK Ganguly, who has been accused of sexual harassment, by making a presidential reference to the Supreme Court, reported the Times of India . The Centre may seek to get Ganguly removed under section 23(1...

Advocate-on-record Amit Gupta puts forward the unfashionable opinion that, although Justice GS Singhvi’s judgment in the section 377 gay sex case was not perfect and unpopular, he did in fact get the law right.

Supreme Court judicial clerkships may no longer remain the preserve of national law schools and select universities after the Delhi high court today ruled as unconstitutional the Supreme Court’s current procedure of inviting applications for the clerkships.

Additional solicitor general Indira Jaising has written an open letter to former Justice AK Ganguly with leaked details of the testimony of the intern alleging Ganguly had sexually harassed her. The letter was published by the Indian Express today and contains long passages from the intern’s confide...

Legally India has culled seven main reasons from the 98-page judgment, explaining why the Supreme Court decided that a lower court was wrong to repeal the law effectively banning homosexual intercourse.

Friday 13 December’s Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) elections have been stayed by the Supreme Court, according to a number of advocates with knowledge of the development. Justice RM Lodha made the order today for the election to be stayed until a committee has had a chance to look into the...

Former Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly continued insisting that he would not resign from his chair at the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC). Calls for him to step down grew meanwhile, with the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, Congress and additional solicitor general Indira Jaising asking for...

The Supreme Court threatened to stay the appointment of retired judges to tribunals across India blaming lack of action in bringing uniformity in their appointment process and service conditions, reported the Times of India . Picking out Armed Forces Tribunal, National Commission for Dispute Redress...

Nikhil Kanekal explores the media furore and arguments surrounding the swirling #InternJudge sex harassment case that has thrown media, bench and bar into a tizzy.

BCI cozies up to NaMo A delegation led by Bar Council of India (BCI) chief Manan Kumar Mishra met Narendra Modi on Saturday, inviting him to address the valedictory function of the Gujarat bar Council. According to a Gujarat state press release, the BCI respected Modi’s nationalism, while Modi calle...

3 SC registry contacts for holiday / late-night relief As first notified in a September registry circular, three additional court registrars have been designated as points of contacts for advocates “seeking relief in urgent matters either on court holidays or after court hours”. After “screening the...