India News: The former Chief Justice of India, J.S. Verma, who recently chaired the panel that came out with recommendations on improving women's security, died on Monday following multiple organ failure. He was 80.

Justice Verma was admitted to Medanta Medicity Hospital in neighbouring Gurgaon on Friday with a serious liver condition. His condition deteriorated rapidly. Justice Verma, who became the 27th CJI on March 25, 1997 and retired on January 18, 1998, was appointed chairman of the three-member committee to suggest legal reforms to deal with sexual assault cases in the wake of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case in Delhi.