Black-coat-disguised non-advocates get Delhi Bar Association polls cancelled for bogus-voting. Voting now on Feb 1 [TOI]

VP Sarathi: former advocate general of Sikkim, faculty at Nalsar Hyderabad and authority on interpretation of statutes, passed away yesterday at his Hyderabad residence [Law and Other Things]

Court Witness goes mainstream: For every “eccentric Katju” there’s Legally India’s very own “caustic” @courtwitness1 [Asian Correspondent]

SM Krishna challenge accepted: Lokayukta probe stayed by SC [NDTV]

Killer-Pune bus driver refused legal assistance, booked for murder, hurt, theft, damage of public property, and sent to police custody till Feb 4 [TOI]

Thank God Its Friday: Corporate honchos give special 2G court a miss; SC orders issuance of fresh summons [TOI / Hindu]

Bombay HC fights on for the ‘girl child’; Upholds decision to make mandatory installation of the ‘silent observer’ [DNA]

Justice Sikri dismisses woman’s divorce petition in Delhi HC, maintains that divorce obtained in foreign court cannot be challenged in Indian court by the same party who had sought divorce in foreign court [The Pioneer]

Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana reprimands woman for forging documents to get maintenance fee from estranged husband; FIR lodged [The Pioneer]

AHI Infotech faces Ricky Ponting’s wrath in potential lawsuit for IPR violation, for using Ponting’s face without permission [Hindustan Times]

National Law Commission gives lovers reason to rejoice: Soon to be notified Prohibition of Unlawful Assembly Act 2011 will punish every participant of Khap Panchayats [DNA]

Google refuses to pre-screen anything, even as it faces March 13 lower court hearing date [Hindu]

Strike 2 against Samsung: Apple didn’t violate any Samsung patent, rules German court [Mint]