-The Times of India MUMBAI: Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi (25), who surrendered to the BKC police on Saturday, was remanded in seven days' police custody by the Bandra holiday court on Sunday. Charged with sedition for insulting national symbols through his cartoons, he refused to engage a lawyer in protest. The cartoons in question are on the theme Cartoons Against Corruption and one of them depicts the national emblem as comprising...

-PTI CHENNAI: Terming the arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in Mumbai a "serious criminal offence", Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Monday said politicians and police officials behind it should be instead arrested and tried. "Because under Section 342 of the PIC, wrongful arrest and confinement are serious criminal offences ... If you are arresting a person who has not committed a crime, then you are committing a crime. So,...

-The Indian Express Its report on the allocation of coal blocks is marred by a major legal error The legal fraternity celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court of India in 2000 with a book, Supreme, But Not Infallible. The unusual title of the book was a powerful way for the legal fraternity to remind itself, and the public, that the highest court in the land is fallible, that it can...

-The Telegraph Mumbai, Sept. 9: Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, arrested for posting purported seditious content on his website, was today remanded in police custody till September 16 by a local court. Trivedi was arrested last evening after he surrendered before the Bandra-Kurla Complex police. Police had sought his custody to question him on the contents on his website, www.cartoonsagainstcorruption. The court had issued a non-bailable warrant against him last month. A member of the...

-The Times of India The judiciary-government tussle over code of conduct for judges is far from over. Though the government has decided to give statutory status to the Code of Conduct evolved by the Supreme Court in 1997, law minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said this does not mean judiciary will be free to comment on constitutional authorities in open court. The government is firm on introducing a specific provision in the...