Lily Thomas scalp: Lily Thomas claims its first scalp with convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood. Lok Sabha MPs Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagdish Sharma are likely to follow suit [PTI]

AC for HC: The Karnataka government has finally cleared the Rs 8 crore proposal to install air conditioners and noise insulation all through the Karnataka high court [Bangalore Mirror]

NGT greening interiors: The National Green Tribunal is busy interior decorating its new permanent premises with the color green for furniture and courtrooms [PTI]

Policing the police: The Karnataka Police Complaints Authority has been created to receive complaints from victims of police brutality, for any grievances like misconduct, arrest or detention without due process of law, custodial death and abuse of power [TOI]

Unsensitised courts: The video link option for testimony, available to rape victims, is hardly implemented reports IBNLive as the Mumbai photojournalist rape-survivor collapsed in court when shown a porn clip and asked to testify if her attackers made her watch the clip

Circuit bench protests: The Kangra District Bar Association (DBA) has submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India and the union law minister in protest against the decision of the state high court, wherein it ordered district and sessions court and additional district and sessions court judges to hold circuit courts at various subdivisions of the district for faster disposal of the cases [HT]

P&H HC judge: Punjab & Haryana HC has got a new additional judge in Navita Singh [Orissa Diary]