A three-judge in-house Supreme Court panel headed by Justice SA Bobde dismissed a sacked SC woman employee’s sexual harassment complaint against CJI Ranjan Gogoi, finding “no substance’’ in her allegations. In doing so, they questioned the lone dissenter, Justice DY Chandrachud, who wrote to the inquiry panel, suggesting an alteration in the inquiry procedure. The clean chit to the CJI cannot be faulted on procedure as this was no judicial proceeding, but only an in-house inquiry. In writing its probe report, the three-judge in-house panel considered a large number of documents, including records of SC inquiry proceedings drawn against the complainant leading to her dismissal in 2018. To be sure, critics are going to red flag the law on sexual harassment that has taken slow and incremental steps in the last 20 years.

Source: dna May 08, 2019 01:30 UTC