MP slayed RTI activist? The use of RTI by a Gujarat-based environment activist, against a member of parliament’s (MP) involvement in illegal mining in the Gir forest, led to his alleged murder by the MP and his aides. The MP has now been arrested after a CBI report [NYT]

Menaka Guruswamy interview: Mint does a pithy interview with Menaka Guruswamy – the lawyer for the petitioners in Thursday’s bureaucrats judgment of the SC. Guruswamy was also among the leading lawyers challenging Section 377 of the IPC

Fake advocate: The Madras HC has on procedural defects suspended the jail term of a man being tried under the IPC for enrolling with the Tamil Nadu Bar council on a bogus law degree [The Hindu]

AP HC in Vizag: The Vishakhapatnam Bar Association has reiterated its demand for an Andhra Pradesh HC bench in Vizag, “since Seemadhra advocates were facing hostile attitude from Telangana advocates” [The Hindu]

New UP Adv Gen: Former BCI chairman and Allahabad HC senior advocate Vinay Chandra Mishra yesterday took charge as the advocate general of Uttar Pradesh [TOI]

Ambitious Sibal: Kapil Sibal today called a meeting of the advisory council of the National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms, headed by the law minister to deliberate on important issues, including the litigation policy and making audio-video recording of all court proceedings mandatory. Sibal purports to achieve in six months what his predecessors failed to made any progress in in more than 4 years [TOI]

Lawyer authors profiled: The Hindu succinctly profiles lawyers-and-writers NLSIU Bangalore grads Satyajit Sarna and Aditya Sudershan, BMS College of law Bangalore grad Rishi Kumar and Osmania University grad Kalyan Kankanala