On January 12, 2018, four senior judges of the Supreme Court, including Justice Ranjan Gogoi, had warned that unless the institution was preserved, “democracy will not survive” in India. AdvertisingThe second major crisis in the fraught recent history of the Supreme Court of India has pushed the institution into uncharted waters — again. And like in January last year, all eyes are on the Supreme Court again, watching out for the institutional response that it comes out with. The regulations on sexual harassment at the Supreme Court do not explicitly lay down the procedure to be adopted when a complaint is received against the CJI. The regulations are, however, clear that an inquiry can be carried out against “any complaint in the Supreme Court precincts”.

Source: Indian Express April 20, 2019 23:03 UTC