Former Maharashtra & Goa bar council secretary of 10 years and advocate, Dr Varsha Rokade, has been appointed as expert in the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. She said that in her new role she would work towards examining legal problems and finding solutions related to girl children, infant mortality, female foeticide, maternal deaths, malnutrition and child labour.

AP HC judges Madan Lokur and Sanjay Sharma strike down 4.5 per cent minority central sub-quota within OBC quota, ruling that it was untenable due to having a purely religious basis instead of being based on intelligible differentia [Economic Times][Judgment via Spreadlaw]

18-year-old girl argues own matter in Karnataka HC after her lawyers withdraw from her petition against her college, without warning; She alleged that the college debarred her from examinations on ground of shortage of attendance in an “act of vengeance” [Deccan Herald]

Lawyer FAQs and other things lawyers might want to know: “LLB” stands for Legum Baccalaureus, neck bands are in shape of tablet of Moses and represent intelligence, while lawyers wear the black gown “in mourning” [Subjudiced]

SC convicts two govt hospital employees for accepting Rs 75 and a small box of laddoos in bribe from a farmer for issuing discharge ticket for his father post-treatment; The conviction comes after a seven-year-battle in trial court followed by affirmation of conviction in the HC and two years of appeal hearings in the SC [DNA India]

Del HC CJ Sikri assures brother judges of security personnel back-up after May 18 attack on a metropolitan magistrate and two additional sessions judges [Outlook India]

India’s central drug standard controller colludes with medical experts to approve drugs in violation of laws; 31 drugs were approved without human-clinical-testing between 2008 and 2010 [PRS India]

Karnataka notifies Right to Education Act’s rules 2012 guaranteeing free and compulsory education [The Rules]