Controversial AFSPA completes 55 years despite protests for it...

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 ...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, said the recommendations of the Justice Verma Commission were not accepted completely.

TRIBUTE by Rajeev Dhavan No obituary notice can do justice to Justice J.S. Verma. A judge for over 25 years, Chief Justice of India (CJI), Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, (NHRC), Verma Commission on Security Lapses, Verma Commission (...) - 2013 ...

Jagdish Sharan Verma, the former Indian chief justice who helped lead the charge for tough new laws to protect women in the wake of a gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus, has died. He was 80. Verma died late Monday of multi-organ failure after a ...

Former Chief Justice of India, and among the most active and respected Indian jurists, Jagdish Sharan Verma, died at a Gurgaon hospital on Monday night. He was 80. Doctors at Medanta Medicity said he died of multiple organ failure. "He was brought ...

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 ...

One of the first judicial interventions in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases came as early as April 1, 2002, when Justice (retired) J S Verma as chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) noted that investigations in these cases were ...

When I was posted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as its secretary general in 2001, most fellow officers advised me to seek a change, stating that serving under retired judges would be unpleasant, and at best, terribly tedious. It ...

Legal luminaries, politicians and social activists thronged the Lodhi Crematorium on Tuesday evening to pay their last respects to former chief justice of India J S Verma, who died on Monday at a Gurgaon Hospital. Verma's pyre was lit by grandson Anirudh, ...