Anon RTIs: A Right to Information application can now also be made using only a Post Box number instead of the applicant’s name and address, the Calcutta HC has ruled [HT]

Loco Adalat: 300 benches of the National Lok Adalat on Saturday disposed of 3.44 lakh cases and disbursed a total compensation amount of Rs 39.89 crore [PTI]

Shah for LawComm: Former Delhi HC chief justice AP Shah has been appointed to succeed former SC justice DK Jain as chairman of the 20th Law Commission after Jain resigned to preside over the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission [PTI]

Bombay HC new 6: Bombay HC additional judges Abhay Mahadeo Thipsay, Justice Utkarsh Vishvanath Bakre, Justice Manoj Shivlal Sanklecha, Justice Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka, Justice Sunil Prabhakarrao and Justice Nitin Madhukar Jamdar have been elevated as permanent judges in that HC [PTI]

Caveat emptier: The appointment of 11 presidents and 23 members to Karnataka’s district consumer forums have been in limbo for almost three months now after a writ challenging the propriety of the procedure for their selection is pending in the Karnataka HC [TOI]

Antiquated construction of museum: The Madras HC museum is 70 per cent complete nine months into its construction. Paraphernalia includes a 1915 Mahatma Gandhi speech, pre-HC era British judgments, retrograde judge uniforms and wood pens used to write judgements in the 1900s [The Hindu]