Mangaluru : Senior Lawyer Indira Jaising to deliver BV Kakkilaya Inspired Oration today
Mangaluru, Dec 17: Senior lawyer at the Supreme Court of India and Former Additional Solicitor General of India Indira Jaising will deliver the BV Kakkilaya Inspired Oration- 2018 on December 17 (Monday) in Mangaluru.
As a part of the oration, Padma Shree Awardee Indira Jaising will speak on the topic 'Gender Justice in India' at Dr. Shivarama Karanth Sabhabhavana, at University College, Hampankatta in the city, said a release from Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya on behalf of Hosathu, Bengaluru, MS Krishnan Memorial Trust , Bengaluru , Samadarshi Vedike, Mangaluru. The event will be held in association with University College, Mangaluru and University Evening College, Mangaluru.
After completing graduation from Bangalore University and LLM from Bombay University, Indira Jaising pursued a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London in 1970. She became the first woman to be designated as a senior advocate by the Bombay High Court in 1986 and appointed Additional Solicitor General of India in 2009.
She worked for more than half a century for social justice, human rights and equality for women. In 1980, she founded the Lawyers Collective, which has been doing pioneering work on civil rights, rights of workers, women, and LGBTQ, legislation against domestic violence, sexual harassment at workplace, etc.
In May 2017, she was appointed as the head of the UN mission to investigate alleged atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. She has successfully argued for triple talaq, women's right to enter the Sabarimala temple, Hadiya's fight to choose her faith, victims of the Bhopal gas leak, sexual harassment at work and many more, a release said.
Jaising was the only lawyer to be named at number 20, in Fortune's '50 Greatest Leaders' of 2018, as the voice of the poorest in India. She has penned several books and has been a visiting scholar at Pen Law University and Columbia University. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2005.
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Migrant labourer lynched in Odisha over false claim of Bangladeshi identity
Sambalpur, Odisha: A 30-year-old migrant labourer from West Bengal was beaten to death around 8.30 pm on Wednesday in the Shantinagar city after a group of men falsely accused him of being an illegal Bangladeshi national.
Police said on Thursday, the victim, identified as Juel Shaikh, had stopped at a tea stall after completing his day’s work. Three other migrant workers were with him at the time.
According to police and local sources, a group of four to five unidentified men approached the workers and began questioning them about their identity. The Observer Post reported that the men allegedly accused the labourers of being Bangladeshi immigrants and demanded proof of identity. After the workers produced valid identity documents, the attackers reportedly dismissed them as fake and began assaulting the group.
Three of the workers managed to flee. Juel Shaikh was caught by the assailants and beaten severely. He sustained serious injuries and died at the spot. The attackers fled soon after the assault.
A police officer said the body was recovered from the scene and shifted to the district headquarters hospital morgue. Shaikh’s family has been informed of his death. The injured workers were admitted to hospital for treatment. A post-mortem examination of the deceased is scheduled to be conducted on Thursday.
