“I had written a letter for a committee different from the one that was constituted,” he said over the telephone. The Justice Bobde panel was formed on April 23. The Justice Bobde Committee, which gave a clean chit to the CJI, had Justices Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee as its members. Justice Malhotra was inducted into the panel after Justice N.V. Ramana, third most senior judge in the court, recused himself from the panel, following a complaint by the woman that he was close to the CJI. The panel had proceeded ex-parte after the complainant, a former employee of the court, withdrew from its proceedings on April 30.

Source: The Hindu May 10, 2019 08:33 UTC