HP High Court mourns death of former CJI J S Verma

The following is the statement issued by AIDWA on April 23: AIDWA expresses its shock at the sudden demise of Justice JS Verma, former CJI and chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. In his death, all those fighting against injustice and ...

It was shortly after the terrible cyclone that had ripped through coastal Odisha in November 1999. Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma had just taken over as the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Caught up with acquainting himself ...

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (TrustLaw) - The main architect of India's new anti-rape law died late on Monday, leaving a legacy of tougher punishments for sex crimes, the creation of new offences under the law, and measures to make the police more ...

Ravi Raveendran/Agence France-Presse — Jagdish Sharan Verma, former chief justice of India, left, with then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at a Human Rights conference in New Delhi on Dec. 10, 2002. Jagdish Sharan Verma, former chief justice of ...

I agree with Justice J.S. Verma that the governments proposed women-only bank is mere tokenism. What the women of this country need urgently are laws that can ensure their safety, not economic sops. An all-woman bank may empower women in financial terms, but ...

Justice J.S. Verma; Raj Shetty; P.C. Chacko; and more TEXT SIZE : A | A | A TOOLS Photographs: Mukesh Ambani, PC Chacko, JS Verma: ABP; Lance Armstrong: Bloomberg;

New Delhi, Apr 22 (UNI) Former Chief Justice of India and architect of new anti-rape law justice J S Verma died today due to muliple organ failure. Justice Verma who breathed his last at the age of eighty at Medanta hospital, Gurgaon was also the ...

Fact-finding mission on violence against women says govt's legal amendments don't fully reflect the Justice J.S. Verma panel's recommendations Anuja The protests that began in December led to the government constituting the Verma committee that ...

TRIBUTE by Chaman Lal The death of Justice J.S. Verma, the former Chief Justice of India and erstwhile Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on April 22, 2013 marks the end of an important era in the operationalisation of human (...) - 2013 ...