25 year-old in-house lawyer and ILS Pune grad Pallavi Purkayastha found murdered in her Mumbai flat, stabbed and with her throat slit. Her body was discovered by her live-in boyfriend, an associate at JSA [PTI]
Litigation start-up: Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi indirect tax associate and NLU Jodhpur 2008 grad Sameer Jain starts up a litigation and tax advisory practice Pamasis Law with his brother, former Fox Mandal Bangalore litigation associate and Lucknow university 2006 grad Sidhharth Jain [Legally India]
Delhi HC approves Press Council of India’s mandate to regulate media-reporting of children, under guidelines framed by an ad-hoc committee appointed by the court in February. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directive to all TV Channels to not disclose the identity of delinquents when reporting about them, and comply with Cable Television Networks Rules 1994 which prohibit airing of programmes denigrating children [PTI] [Press Information Bureau]
SC upholds Madhya Pradesh gov’t’s decision to compulsorily retire a judge for unsatisfactory performance. Judge RC Chandel had earlier sought help of a former MP in getting adverse remarks against him expunged from annual confidential reports of years 1993 and 1994. SC justice Lodha said that “like Caesar’s wife” judges’ conduct must be above all suspicion, adding that Chandel demonstrated a “most shocking and unbecoming conduct” in approaching the MP [PTI]