In an unprecedented development, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has appeared before the Justice S.A. Bobde in-house inquiry committee examining sexual harassment allegations levelled against the top judge by a former apex court employee. A letter of request was issued to the Chief Justice of India and he responded to it and met the panel, a highly-placed source told The Hindu on Wednesday. The source however refused to divulge when exactly, what day, the CJI participated in the proceedings. The report, when done, would likely be placed before a Full Court and vetted by all the Supreme Court judges. The crisis in the Supreme Court began when a clutch of websites published the woman’s allegations against the CJI on Easter Day morning.

Source: The Hindu May 01, 2019 18:45 UTC