{"id":311527,"date":"2019-04-20T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311527"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:06:39","slug":"judiciary-under-serious-threat-cji-ranjan-gogoi-denies-sex-harassment-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/judiciary-under-serious-threat-cji-ranjan-gogoi-denies-sex-harassment-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Judiciary under serious threat&#8221;: CJI Ranjan Gogoi denies sex harassment allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gogoi-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday denied charges of sexual harassment against him and said the judiciary is under \u201cvery, very severe\u201d threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special bench of the apex Court called an emergency hearing after a former staff at the top court accused the Chief Justice of India of sexual misconduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to stoop so low to answer these charges,&#8221; Justice Gogoi said during the hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Gogoi said an attempt is being made to undermine the independence of the judiciary by levelling allegations of sexual harassment against the Chief Justice of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said after 20 years of selfless service as judge, he had a bank balance of Rs 6.8 lakh. \u201cIs this a reward the Chief Justice gets,\u201d he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Justice Gogoi alleged a conspiracy behind the allegations and said, &#8220;There has to be bigger force behind this, they want to deactivate office of CJI&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The special bench refrained from passing any judicial order &#8220;at this stage&#8221; and said they &#8220;leave it to the discretion of the media to act responsibly on allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday denied charges of sexual harassment against him and said the judiciary is under \u201cvery, very severe\u201d threat. A special bench of the apex Court called an emergency hearing after a former staff at the top court accused the Chief Justice of India of sexual misconduct. &#8220;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5498,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311528,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311527\/revisions\/311528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}