Witness protection: Delhi HC directs Delhi government to prepare a wintess protection program including focussing on assesment of risk to witnesses and protection of their identity [TOI]

SCOTUS in for taste of India: Indian-born US citizen Srikanth Srinivasan becomes the first person of South Asian descent to be on the track to the US Supreme Court bench, after the Senate unanimously approved his candidature for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Coumbia circuit [AFP]

New Karnataka AG 30K cases old: Senior advocate Ravivarma Kumar is the new advocate general of Karnataka, replacing predecessor CH Vijayashankar. He has appeared in over 30,000 cases in the Karnataka high court and the Supreme Court, including 8,000 cases where he argued for tenants under the Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1961 [Deccan Herald]