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Supreme Court justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana have set aside declined to interfere with a Calcutta high court order that declined to cancel the bail of former NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who is accused of having sexually harassed another staff member at the college, reported the Times of India.

Correction: We understand that the Times of India story was erreneous and we regret republishing their report. The Supreme Court did not interfere with the lower court's order, but said on 11 November:

There is nothing on record to suggest that the petitioner brought to the notice of the High Court that the accused/Respondent No.2-Siddhartha Guha who has been granted bail is threatening the petitioner. In that view of the matter, we are not inclined to interfere with the impugned order refusing cancellation of bail but give liberty to the petitioner to move before the High Court for cancellation of bail, in case of threat given by accused-respondent No.2. If any such petition is filed for cancellation of bail on the ground of threat given by the accused respondent NO.2, the Court may consider the same uninfluenced by the earlier order passed by the High Court or this Court.

The alleged victim, represented by advocates Siddharth Dave and Phiroze Edulji, alleged before the apex court that Guha had threatened her with an acid attack, as set out in a police complaint. The Supreme Court told her to approach the high court with evidence of why Guha should not be granted bail.

Nalsar Hyderabad performed better than all national law schools, including NLSIU Bangalore, in finding placements for its 2013-14 graduates of its class of 2014, according to Legally India’s new rating of law schools recruitment results.

IDIA diversity initiative scholar and NUJS Kolkata third-year student Shivam was selected to represent the law school at the 12th William C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, after he secured the third rank in NUJS’ intra university moot selection rounds.

Having represented NUJS at the 24^th Manfred Lachs Space moot last year Shivam was lauded on the IDIA’s website as “one of the most promising IDIA Scholars”.

IDIA has requested for sponsorship for him since the expenses for his participation at the moot, which is scheduled for 15 March, will run up to an estimated Rs 1,50,000.

The Delhi University (DU) has submitted a proposal to the Delhi high court for construction of a single campus for the three law schools under its umbrella that are currently operating from separate buildings, reported The Hindu and others. 

The new building, 75 per cent of which is allegedly ready, will house DU’s three law centres — Campus Law Centre, Law Centre-I and Law Centre-II — adjacent to the faculty of law on the North Campus, next academic session onward.

When a seven-member Bar Council of India (BCI) team visited the law centres for inspection on Tuesday, the Delhi University Students’ Union presented it with a memorandum demanding better infrastructure.

The BCI inspection was pursuant to the university’s application for re-affiliation filed with the BCI after the regulator ordered the rejection of advocate enrolment applications of recent graduates of the university.

The BCI had similarly cracked down on Osmania University and forbade its graduates from enrolling as advocates after the university protested the Rs 1.5 lakh inspection fee demanded by the regulator.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) today inspected beleagured Delhi University’s three law centres.

NLUJAA Guwahati today selected Nalsar Hyderabad registrar Prof Vijender Kumar as its new vice chancellor, after over five months of functioning without a vice chancellor (VC).

Nuals Kochi’s chancellor has asked for an inspection of the law school after Nuals vice chancellor Dr Sheena Shukkur’s allegations of financial mismanagement at the university during the term of former vice chancellor NK Jayakumar.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has sent a notice to the Telangana State Bar Association to forbid 2014-15 graduates from Law University College Kakatiya and Osmania University Law College from enrolling, reported India Today.

Reportedly, the BCI retaliated against the colleges’ decision to protest the Rs 1.5 lakh inspection fee charged by the BCI to affiliate and accredit colleges, with Osmania having secured a stay from the Andhra Pradesh high court against the fee last year.

Only last month the BCI has banned Delhi University law graduates from enrolling as advocates, because the university allegedly did not follow the rules.

The Bar Council of India said it will not allow recent graduates of Delhi University’s law centres to enrol as advocates.

NLU Delhi’s Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) has launched an online database of research-oriented reading references and videos on media law and policy.