Since the allegation early this month that a “recently-retired” Supreme Court judge sexually harassed at least one intern (“SJ”), print, online and TV media news have been reporting the story’s twists and turns avidly.

Serial activist petitioner and advocate Manohar Lal Sharma has prepared a writ petition claiming contempt of court by four respondents, namely the intern who alleged sexual harassment of a judge , the Times of India and Legally India that first published her claims, and to the Attorney General of In...

The Supreme Court registry has checked the records of interns assigned to judges, on the directions of the Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam, allowing the court to identify the alleged former judge accused of sexual harassment, according to The Calcutta Telegraph yesterday . The paper reported tha...

An ex-law faculty dean of Delhi University, Prof SN Singh, filed a complaint with Tilak Marg police station on Thursday in respect of the alleged sexual harassment of an intern with a former Supreme Court judge, reported the Times of India today. In his complaint, according to the paper, he said tha...

A post on social media corroborated parts of the sexual harassment allegations against a former Supreme Court judge made by one of his former research assistants.

The inquiry committee of Supreme Court justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Ranjana Prakash Desai, who are investigating the allegation of sexual harassment by a former NUJS Kolkata student who interned with an ex-apex court judge in late 2012, convened yesterday and asked her to appear before the commit...

The Supreme Court today stayed the demolition of flats, which were illegally constructed more than two decades ago in the Mumbai Campa Cola society, reported the PTI . A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi passed the order after around 140 families living in the apartments had barricaded themselves ...

The NUJS Kolkata graduate who blogged about having been allegedly sexually assaulted by a former Supreme Court judge in 2012, released a statement requesting privacy until she would depose before the Supreme Court’s three-judge inquiry, which was set up yesterday.

NUJS professor Shamnad Basheer has called for the administration to launch an investigation to protect interns from such cases in future. Basheer, who is the Ministry of Human Resource Development chaired professor in intellectual property (IP) law, wrote in a Facebook post: “I’m urging the NUJS adm...

The Supreme Court has set up a three-judge committee to probe the allegation that a retired Supreme Court judge sexually harassed a law student intern in late 2012.

A 75-year-old lawyer petitioned the Supreme Court to abolish the custom of addressing judges as “my lord” and “your lordship” as being “against the dignity of the country”, reported the PTI . Shiv Sagar Tiwari said that “using the word My Lord and Your Lordship which is symbol of slavery should be s...

A law graduate who recently blogged about how a retired Supreme Court judge sexually assaulted her while she was his intern, says that the problem is real and not uncommon at the bar and the bench.

The Supreme Court has, for the third time, upheld the appointment of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha, Mint reported. Dismissing a September 2012 petition filed by a Bangalore-based financial expert alleging irregularities in the process of his appointment, a bench of ...

Scores of Indian lawyers have made the transition from India to become English solicitors. However, Karishma Vora’s path to becoming a barrister in the UK from the Bombay high court is much rarer and more arduous, taking her three years. Legally India asked her how it’s done.

The Supreme Court’s guidelines to deal with sexual harassment complaints within the court corridors are now up on its website, reported PTI . The Gender Sensitisation and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal), Regulations 2013 [ link via Gaz...

SC cases, broken up : Over 300 cases of sexual harassment are pending before the Supreme Court, revealed an RTI reply to activist Vihar Dhurve. Also outstanding: “472 cases related to corruption, 588 road accident cases related to permanent disability, 45 road accident for other injuries, 418 divorc...

Today’s landmark judgment by the Supreme Court on the petition of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has for the first time given the Indian voter the right to reject all candidates contesting an election, reported the PTI . The voter can now mark the “None of the Above” (NOTA) option tha...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati apologises to SC bench headed by Justice RM Lodha for apparent annoyance when unable to respond properly to Coalgate grilling (“It’s very difficult. It is a tremendous strain. I cannot carry everything in my head. Once I argue on one aspect, another question arises ...

The Supreme Court has designated 12 new senior advocates including eight retired high court (HC) judges and four advocates-on-record, three of whom are women. Retired justices SN Aggarwal and Rakesh Chandra Mishra from the Madhya Pradesh HC, Ashok Kumar Roopanwal and Yogendra Kumar Sangal from the A...

The Supreme Court yesterday decided to designate women advocates Vibha Dutta Makhija, Meenakshi Arora and Kiran Suri as senior advocates by a unanimous decision of a full court, reported the Times of India . Advocate Sushil Jain was also designated a senior in the same meeting. This is the first tim...