Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic Day in New Delhi on Saturday, January 26, 2019 (PTI file picture)The committee the Supreme Court had set up in April to probe an alleged corporate-underworld nexus to implicate Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in a sexual harassment case is said to have come across incriminating material that needs further investigation. Patnaik panel is understood to have decided to ask the CBI, Delhi police and the Intelligence Bureau to probe the alleged nexus and provide “requisite materials” to get to the bottom of the purported larger conspiracy to frame Justice Gogoi. A former woman employee of the top court — who had been dismissed in December 2018 — had in April this year accused Chief Justice Gogoi of sexually harassing her. Justice Gogoi has since been cleared by the in-house committee of Justices S.A. Bobde, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee, who said there was “no substance” in the woman’s allegations. However, the official said the police were yet to get any clue about the person who had made the verbal offer to the employee.

Source: The Telegraph June 02, 2019 22:52 UTC