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RIP ex-CJI JS Verma (18.1.1933 – 22.4.2013)

Former chief justice of India justice Jagdish Sharan Verma passed away yesterday at Medanta Hospital Gurgaon due to multiple organ failure, three months after laying the foundation for stronger laws on crimes against women in India.

Verma was the Chief Justice of India between March 1997 and January 1998 when he delivered the landmark Visakha judgement on sexual harassment of women at the workplace. He headed the panel on amendments to criminal law that was constituted after 23 December 2012's brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi.

On 23 January his panel submitted 630-page recommendations on the amendments, with Verma calling on the government to move parliament for a tougher law in its next session.

Verma was the first person to head the News broadcasters Association’s self-regulatory body News Broadcasting Standards Authority set up on 2 October 2008, and was also the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). [NDTV/DNA/Firstpost]

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