Salman Khurshid

The Supreme Court today asked Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2018 convenor Nuals Kochi to appoint an expert committee at the earliest to individually look into at least 251 CLAT 2018 candidates’ grievances with the conduct of the entrance exam this year.

Senior advocate Salman Khurshid and advocate Anand Shankar Jha appeared in the Supreme Court for several Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2018 candidates today in a challenge to its conduct and its results, and the court directed them to serve copies of the petition on CLAT 2018 convenor Nuals Kochi and on the ministry of human resource development (HRD).

Senior advocate JP Cama called for a mandamus to bulldoze the process of judicial appointments and prevent judicial vacancy of nearly 45% at the Supreme Court, which is expected in the next 11 months.

The post colonial-era building with the red sandstone dome on Delhi’s Bhagwaan Dass Road is home to an elite class of lawyers, who are likely to be the most expensive in the world: they are typically paid between Rs 5 and 15 lakh per hearing.

Interviews by Legally India with more than 32 Delhi lawyers who brief seniors in the Supreme Court and Delhi high court reveal all…

Union law minister Salman Khursheed reportedly “dared” campaigner Arvind Kejriwal to protest in his Farukkhabad constituency, suggesting it would be hard to return from there. Kejriwal alleged this was a murder threat from the minister.

Last week Kejriwal had demanded Khursheed’s resignation alleging that the minister and his wife were guilty of forgery and embezzlement of funds. He had threatened to protest for the demand. [Express]

In footage aired on some news channels yesterday, Khursheed said:

“I was made the Law Minister and asked to wield a pen…now it is time to replace it with blood.

Let him (Kejriwal) come to Farrukhabad, but how will he go back…Kejriwal says he will ask the questions and asks us to give the answers, you have heard what we have to say, you will forget the questions.” [IBN Live/The Hindu]