SC denies 2 judges met panellist probing CJI row

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 5

The Supreme Court on Sunday denied reports that Justice RF Nariman and Justice DY Chandrachud met Justice SA Bobde, who is heading a three-member in-house committee inquiring into sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

The report said Justice Nariman and Justice Chandrachud had suggested that the panel should not go ahead with the proceeding ex parte after the complainant, a dismissed employee of the top court, withdrew from the proceedings.

“It is most unfortunate that a leading newspaper has chosen to state that Justice RF Nariman and Justice DY Chandrachud together met Justice SA Bobde on Friday evening i.e. on May 3. This is wholly incorrect," SC Secretary General Sanjeev S Kalgaonkar said in a statement.

“The in-house committee which is deliberating on the issue concerning the CJI deliberates on its own without any input from any other judge of this court," the statement further read.

The dismissed woman employee, who had levelled sexual harassment allegations against CJI Gogoi,   had opted herself out of the inquiry, expressing "serious concerns and reservations" about its functioning over not being allowed to be accompanied by lawyer and lack of video recording of proceedings. She had appeared before the panel for three days.

The panel comprising Justice Bobde, Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Indira Banerjee had started its proceedings late last month and had held several closed-door sittings in which the complainant had appeared to record her testimony. The CJI too had appeared before the committee on Wednesday. 



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