Sexual harassment case against CJI: PUCL demands complaint to be placed before independent external committee
IANS | New Delhi, May 9, 2019
The PUCL on Wednesday said the report of the Supreme Court in-house committee which concluded that there was no substance in the allegations of sexual harassment made by a former woman employee of the apex court against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was "gross travesty of justice, flagrant violation of the principles of natural justice and rule of law".
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"The decision not to make public the Report of the In-house Committee only compounds in the public eye, the apprehension that the entire judicial system in the highest court in the country did not act in a fair and judicious manner in handling the complaint of the woman employee," it said.
It said the entire incident from the time the complaint became public on April 20 to report of the in-house committee epitomizes "an egregious breach and flagrant violation of all principles of natural justice, procedural fairness, fair play and rule of law".
PUCL demanded that the complainant should be given the Report of the in-house Committee. It also said that the report should be placed before the full court of the Supreme Court "for an informed decision".
It demanded that the complaint should be placed before an independent external committee, headed by a woman.