Prof chair-snatching: Academicians and students sign online protests against the arbitrary removal of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) chair professors NS Gopalakrishnan and Yogesh Pai from their positions at CUSAT and NLU Jodhpur respectively, assigning no reasons [Spicy IP/Live Law]

No slack in rape sentencing: Supreme Court turns down now-married rape victim's suggestion of compromise with her attacker who was convicted 10 years ago and has completed three years in jail [NDTV]

Ragger suspended: A GLC Ernakulam student was suspended for ragging his junior who had refused to pay him Rs 50 for entering the college boys' hostel [TOI]

Lawyer mass arrest: 15,000 Allahabad high court and other Bar Association lawyers were arrested on Monday after their protest against the proposal to set up a Western UP bench of Allahabad HC. All the lawyers were taken to Police Lines from where they were later released [TOI]

Poll for jail: The Rajya Sabha has passed the Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 negating the Supreme Court verdict that disallowed politicians to contest polls from jail [Firstpost]