{"id":312029,"date":"2019-05-06T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312029"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:59:18","slug":"sc-panel-gives-clean-chit-to-cji-ranjan-gogoi-in-sexual-harassment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-panel-gives-clean-chit-to-cji-ranjan-gogoi-in-sexual-harassment-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC panel gives clean chit to CJI Ranjan Gogoi in sexual harassment case"},"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=\"500\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Supreme Court in-house inquiry investigating the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has given CJI Gogoi a clean chit in the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The in-house committee of the top court headed by Justice SA Bobde, said that it did not find any substance in the allegations of a former employee of the Supreme Court who had accused CJI of sexual harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere is no substance in the sexual harassment allegations against CJI,\u201d a Supreme Court in-house inquiry stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The panel, which also includes, Justice Indira Banerjee and\u00a0Justice Indu Malhotra has said that the report of a committee constituted as part of the in-house inquiry is &#8220;not liable to be made public&#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 woman who made the allegations withdrew from the inquiry on April 30, saying that the atmosphere of the committee was very frightening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The report of the In-House Inquiry Committee was submitted on May 5, in accordance with the In-House procedure, to the next senior judge, after Justice Bobde who is competent to receive the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Supreme Court in-house inquiry investigating the allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has given CJI Gogoi a clean chit in the matter. The in-house committee of the top court headed by Justice SA Bobde, said that it did not find any substance in the allegations of a former employee [&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\/312029"}],"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=312029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312030,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312029\/revisions\/312030"}],"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=312029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}