Even though the Haryana government has constituted a three-member team of women police to investigate the alleged 22 February incident of mass rape along the National Highway in Murthal, the state police said on Friday that they have found no concrete evidence that any such incident took place, reports The Economic Times.

"Already two senior officers of the state government, including a principal secretary and an inspector general of police, visited the spot of the incident and nearby areas, but no evidence of the occurrence could be found," said director general of police YP Singal.

Pakistani investigators in the Pathankot case may ask Indian national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval for a statement, reports the Hindustan Times.

This is because the FIR filed by Pakistan in the case is based on information provided by Doval.

"The FIR said it was being lodged on the basis of information provided by India's NSA that four attackers crossed from Pakistan to India to attack the Pathankot air base on January 2, which makes Doval a complainant in the case and a potential prime witness," said a senior government official.

The JNU Students Union will host a public meeting today with former navy chief Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, on the topic 'Demilitarising Nationalism: anti-war perspectives on patriotism', reports The Telegraph.

"The ABVP has been firing at JNU from the shoulders of retired soldiers. The veterans and others we've called tomorrow will give us a more rational narrative of patriotism," said Shehla Rashid, vice president of the JNU Students' Union.

The meeting was called after the JNU administration met ex-servicemen to discuss the instilling of patriotism among students by placing war memorabilia, including a battle tank, on campus.

President Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday that the Indian Penal Code, put in place by the British in colonial India in 1860, needs a thorough revision so as to meet the needs of the 21st century, reports The Economic Times.

"The IPC has undergone very few changes in the last 155 years," said the President at a function marking the 155^th anniversary of the IPC. "Even now, there are offences in the Code which were enacted by the British to meet their colonial needs. Yet, there are many new offences which have to be properly defined and incorporated in the Code."

The cases against three JNU students charged with sedition after allegedly shouting anti-national slogans on campus on 9 February have been transferred to the Delhi Police Special Cell that investigates terrorism cases, reports The Indian Express.

The cases were transferred on the day that the three students were questioned together.

A senior police officer said: "Joint questioning of the three persons was done by the Special Cell. And the report mentions that the accused are not cooperating with the investigation. There is involvement of people from other states as well in the whole incident."

Key figures from the UPA government's security establishment could be questioned in regard to the revelation by former union home secretary GK Pillai that the June 2004 killing of Ishrat Jahan and three alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists in Gujarat was the result of an intelligence entrapment operation, reports The Indian Express.

In an interview to Times Now on Friday, Pillai said: "It was a very successful intelligence operation. we managed to entice the LeT to send their shooters to India and were able to monitor their activities in India and to, in one sense, catch them. It was a very planned operation..."

The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on March 16 that asks to set up a national court of appeal above the high courts, so that the apex court can deal exclusively with constitutional matters, reports the Hindustan Times.

The PIL filed by Puducherry-based advocated Vasanta Kumar suggests that this new national court of appeal have regional benches at Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata, and should be the last court for appeals with undisputable decisions unless questions of law remain unanswered.

This is because the Supreme Court has more than 60,000 cases pending due to appeals based on cases in the high courts.