The former Supreme Court staffer who alleged sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi issued a statement stating that she will not further participate in the Justice S.A. Bobde in-house inquiry committee proceedings into her accusations. Besides, her loss of hearing in one ear, which she said was “due to stress,” made it worse for her. She claimed to have been “orally instructed” to not disclose the panel proceedings to the media or share the details with her lawyer Vrinda Grover. “I was repeatedly asked by the committee as to why I had made this complaint of sexual harassment so late,” she said. She said she had written a detailed letter to the panel judges to treat the proceedings as a formal inquiry under the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act.

Source: The Hindu April 30, 2019 14:39 UTC