Saurabh Malik
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 6
Former judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today described clean chit to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as justice for judge. Hours after a three-judge Supreme Court panel found no substance in the allegations of sexual harassment, the former judges asserted justice in the case had not only appeared to have been done, but actually done.
The former judges also claimed the panel, by following the well-established principles of inquiry against a sitting judge, had brought out the effectiveness of in-house mechanism set up by the judiciary to ensure that its own house was in order.
CJI Gogoi was the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court from February, 2011, to April, 2012. Responding to the panel findings, Justice Ranjit Singh asserted that the committee had adhered to the procedure established two decades ago to look into allegations against a sitting judge.
Justice Ranjit Singh added the findings, too, were not required to be made public when the probe was carried out against a sitting judge in view of the judgment in the case of “Indira Jaising versus Supreme Court of India”.
Justice Mehtab Singh Gill added this was not the first time the report was not made public. “Some judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court went through the in-house procedure in the case of PPSC chief Ravi Sidhu and almost all of them were exonerated. In that matter also, the report was not made public,” Justice Gill added.
Justice Nawab Singh said a probe against a sitting judge could only be carried out by a sitting judge and not a retired judge, as suggested in a section of media. He added that the credibility of the institution had been restored by the panel.
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