Bombay lawyers must plan in advance the filing of matters with court fees in excess of Rs 10,000, which is the per-day cap on the amount of fee stamps available to the lawyers in Bombay courts. Bombay courts are apparently experiencing a shortage in court fee stamps, learnt a solicitor when he approached a city civil court counter for purchasing court fee stamps worth Rs 1.5 lakh for a matter [TOI]

Women, children below age 15, and physically handicapped persons cannot be called to Maharashtra police stations for recording of statements, according to the latest circular issued across the state by the inspector general of police. In accordance with Section 160 of the CrPC, police officers would have to visit their residences if they need to record statements from them. The circular came after a complaint lodged by a lady advocate who was recently made to sit in a police station till late in the night when she tried lodging a complaint against her landlord [TOI]

Attorney general Vahanvati’s legal opinion to the department of telecom states that protection under bilateral investment treaties is not available to foreign investors whose 2G licences were cancelled by the SC recently. The protection could have been available if the government, and not the SC, had cancelled the licences. Foreign telecom players including Telenor, Sistema, Axiata and Vodafone had issued notices to the government claiming protection under the various bilateral agreements [The Hindu Businessline]

Katju says that corruption is here to stay in India for the next 15 years since the country is going through a transitional phase in which there is no moral code, commodity prices will rise sharply, and “Anna Hazare and Ramdev’s movement against graft is nothing but an empty gas”. [Firstpost]