SC sets up committee to deal with sexual harassment complaints
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday constituted a 10-member committee headed by its woman judge, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to deal with complaints of sexual harassment within its precincts. Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam formed the Supreme Court Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) in which there are six other female members. Under the guidelines, it is required that the panel has a majority of female members and two members of civil society nominated by the Chief Justice of India. The committee includes three male members Justice Madan B Lokur, L Nageswara Rao and Prof Dr G Mohan Gopal. The women members are Indu Malhotra, Bina Madhavan, B Sunita Rao, Madhu Chauhan and Bharti Ali. (PTI)
Lawyers exchange blows in bid to brief media on Aarushi verdict
Ghaziabad: Pandemonium broke out outside the CBI court here on Tuesday soon after the Talwars were given life term in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case as lawyers jostled with each other and two of them came to blows in a bid to brief the TV channels. As Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal pronounced life imprisonment for Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for killing their daughter and domestic help, lawyers, unconnected with either defence or prosecution, rushed outside to brief the media. As Naresh Yadav, who used to represent one of the servant’s earlier booked by the CBI, started briefing the media, another lawyer Sanjay Tyagi stood next to him to give his version. Things turned ugly when the personal security officer (PSO) pointed his automatic weapon at Tyagi for his frequent interference. This agitated Tyagi and his other colleagues and very soon they were seen exchanging blows with each other till others jumped into and separated the two. (PTI)
