The Bar Council of India (BCI) has rescheduled the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 18 to December 10. The exam was originally scheduled for December 3, 2023.

In an official notification released on the website, the Bar Council of India said, “The decision to reschedule the AIBE has been taken due to a clash with the CLAT PG exam and MP State Judicial PT which are also slated on the same day. We have received multiple communications from the concerned candidates expressing the challenges this overlap presents.”

The council added that the exam has been rescheduled keeping in view the significance of the All India Bar Exam, CLAT PG and MP State Judicial PT. The rescheduling of date will give the students a fair opportunity to excel in these examinations.

The online registrations for the AIBE 18 exam will close on November 16. The deadline for payment through online mode will end on November 17, 2023. The last date for making correction in the registration form is November 19, 2023.

The admit card will be released between December 1 and 5, the BCI further said. The date of examination is December 10, 2023.

The passing criteria for qualifying the exam for general and OBC category students is 45 per cent marks, while for the SC, ST and differently-abled students it is 40 per cent marks. Earlier, the qualifying percentage for reserved categories was 35 per cent.

A minor girl (17 years old) was allegedly held hostage and gang-raped in Gwalior, the police said on Wednesday.

Gwalior Additional Superintendent of Police, Rishikesh Meena, told ANI “A case has come up in the Bilowa police station area and an FIR has been registered in it. This involves two girls from the same family and both are neighbours. The victim’s friend took her away around October 31st and left her with the accused boy. The boy called other boys and raped her at night. It has been mentioned in the FIR that she was kept hostage overnight.”

This case falls under the category of gang rape. An FIR has been registered at the Bilowa police station and the rest of the facts are being investigated and legal action will be taken, he said.

There are four accused in this; a team has been formed by the police and full efforts are being made to arrest them, he added.

Meanwhile, the victim’s friend is also being questioned, as it was she who had taken the victim to the accused and the truth of the whole case will only be found after questioning the criminals, he said.

Further investigation is underway.

A 23-year-old Karnataka woman – who had given birth less than two weeks ago – was allegedly murdered by her husband, a policeman, who suspected she was in a relationship with another man.

Three others have also been arrested in connection with the woman’s death.

Police have said the husband, D Kishore, first consumed a poisonous substance – in an apparent bid to die by suicide – before he strangled his wife, Pratibha S. According to media reports, Pratibha was living at her parents’ home in Hoskote Taluk, and gave birth to her baby – a boy – on October 28.

Kishore was living in the town of Chamarajanagar, which is around 230 km away.

The young woman’s distraught father has branded his son-in-law a “psycho”.

“We married our daughter to him… thinking he is a good man, but he turned out to be a criminal. We want justice. He needs to be punished. I do not want another girl to go through what my daughter did.”

Pratibha, who had a degree in Computer Science, and 32-year-old Kishore, who is from Veerapura in Kolar district, were wed in November last year. Her father has also alleged dowry demands.

According to the police, Kishore and Pratibha had an acrimonious telephone exchange on Sunday evening – one that left the new mother in tears. Her mother told her to disconnect the call and suggested she not speak to Kishore for a while, for fear of upsetting the new-born child.

On Monday, when Pratibha checked her phone, she found 150 missed calls.

Later in the day Kishore reportedly landed up at his in-laws’ home and cornered his wife inside a locked room, where he killed her. Pratibha’s mother was on the roof at the time, police said.

According to The Times of India, Kishore confessed to his mother-in-law before escaping. “Kondu bitte avalna, kondu bitte (I killed her, I killed her),” he reportedly said.

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