The Wall Street Journal interviewed the intern (“SJ”) who alleged a former Supreme Court judge had sexually harassed her, and asked her why she didn’t file a formal complaint when the alleged assault took place in December 2012. She said, according to edited excerpts given in the context of a longer...

Additional solicitor general (ASG) Indira Jaising, in an open letter published in the Times of India today, asked for greater transparency in the Supreme Court’s three-judge committee inquiry into the so-called #InternJudge sexual harassment case, and condemned former ASG Altaf Ahmed’s reported sugg...

A friend of the intern (“SJ”) who deposed before three Supreme Court judges on Monday about allegations of sexual harassment against a former Supreme Court judge, told Legally India that several recent news reports about the confidential inquiry were factually inaccurate.

The former intern (“SJ”) who appeared before a Supreme Court judicial inquiry on Monday about the sexual harassment allegations against a former apex court judge, has said that she has presented “all details of the case” to the committee and asked the media to “stop speculating” on her confidential ...

The named intern (“SJ”) appeared before the Supreme Court inquiry committee for 90 minutes yesterday to give a statement, reported the Times of India yesterday, adding that “it was not immediately known if she stood by her earlier statements or named the alleged perpetrator”. Other media reported th...

The Women’s Rights Initiative of the Lawyers Collective NGO has filed a petition as amicus curiae (friend of the court), requesting the Supreme Court bring its internal sexual harassment guidelines into compliance with the rules laid down in its own Vishaka judgment, to regulate court internships, invite a notice requesting other victims to come forward confidentially, and more.

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...

The SC stayed the Gauhati HC’s order that the CBI is unconstitutional , three days after the 6 November order, in an urgent hearing at the Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam’s residence on Saturday, reported Firstpost . Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati had filed a special leave petition on behalf ...

Supreme Court Justice J Chelameshwar indirectly heaped praise on Congress politician Rahul Gandhi at a judge-felicitation ceremony, by giving him credit for being the saviour of the SC judgment disqualifying convicted politicians, reported the Times of India . His praise was in these words: “A great...

The Gauhati high court on Wednesday struck down the 1963 resolution setting up the Central Bureau of Investigation – the government’s primary investigating agency – and declared it unconstitutional, saying it should be stripped of its powers to probe, file first information reports, arrest suspects ...