Justice D Y Chandrachud has written to the Supreme Court’s three-judge inhouse committee, headed by Justice S A Bobde, not to proceed with the ex-parte inquiry into a dismissed SC woman employee's sexual harassment complaint against CJI Ranjan Gogoi since the complainant had opted out of the inquiry on April 30.
Justice Chandrachud, in line to become CJI after Justices Bobde, N V Ramana and U U Lalit, took the unprecedented step of advising the in-house panel of Justices Bobde, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee after it decided to go ahead with the inquiry ex-parte. The committee had informed the complainant beforehand that proceedings would go on if she chose to withdraw midway.
Justice D Y Chandrachud has written to the Supreme Court’s three-judge inhouse committee, headed by Justice S A Bobde, not to proceed with the ex-parte inquiry into a dismissed SC woman employee's sexual harassment complaint against CJI Ranjan Gogoi since the complainant had opted out of the inquiry on April 30.
Justice Chandrachud, in line to become CJI after Justices Bobde, N V Ramana and U U Lalit, took the unprecedented step of advising the in-house panel of Justices Bobde, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee after it decided to go ahead with the inquiry ex-parte. The committee had informed the complainant beforehand that proceedings would go on if she chose to withdraw midway.