-The Indian Express   Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013. The proposed law, which will replace the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 that suffers from various shortcomings, including silence on the issue of resettlement and rehabilitation of those displaced, stipulates mandatory consent of at least 70 per cent of landowners for acquiring land for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Justice B S Chauhan of the Supreme Court on Monday said that senior advocates engaged by well-to-do accused in criminal cases were taking up most of the time of the court, leaving little time for the redressal of the grievances of commoners. "Our entire (judicial) time is wasted by senior advocates engaged by influential accused, who think the Supreme Court is their safe haven. Ordinary citizens...

-The Hindu The Supreme Court's timidity in dealing with the law on prior sanction for prosecuting public servants has offered protection to the murderous and the corrupt While the Encounter murders in Pathribal and their cover up are yet another blot on India's record in Kashmir, the legal issues they raise on accountability to the law affect the entire country. They touch the very core of the rule of law that is...

-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The CBI has submitted proof of a high-level meeting between top government functionaries and cops involved in the IshratJahan fake Encounter case held to sabotage investigations in the case. Revelations about this meeting were made by suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, an accused in the case who is now out on default bail. Singhal had recorded the meeting secretly and has submitted the audio recording to...

-The Hindu Civil liberties activists have criticised the media for being an IB mouthpiece in the Ishrat Jahan fake Encounter case, while others question the role of ‘activist journalists' The battle over the Gujarat Encounter killings of 2004 is being fought at multiple levels. An ideological and political conflict has erupted over the ways to fight "terror." The Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are engaged in an unprecedented inter-agency...