CJ interacts with women
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Ahead of International Women’s Day, Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court Hima Kohli on Friday interacted with young women and girls of various government institutions under the Women’s Development and Child Welfare department through video conferencing.
The programme was jointly organised by the WD&CW department in collaboration with the State Legal Services Authority.
In the hour-long interaction, young girls shared their dreams and aspirations with the first woman Chief Justice of the State, and asked questions. Justice Kohli patiently answered all the queries, and drew peels of laughter when she candidly admitted her childhood dream was to meet her favourite cartoon characters.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to study the report prepared by Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) before coming out with an .
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AGRA: Vishnu Tiwari was 23 when a trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment. He had been convicted of rape and did not have the means to hire better lawyers. The only thing he could do was assert time and again that he had not committed the crime. After 20 long years, in which time every member of his family died, he has finally been declared innocent by the Allahabad high court.
Senior superintendent of Agra Central Jail VK Singh said, “Vishnu will be released very soon. We are waiting for the formal release order. It is unfortunate he had to be in jail for two decades for a crime he never committed.”
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Advocate Amit Sahni, also a social activist, has urged the court to direct that in the interest of inmates and jail administration, the aged prisoners be directed to surrender after all others prisoners.