{"id":312040,"date":"2019-05-07T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312040"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:16:00","slug":"protests-outside-sc-against-in-house-committee-clean-chit-to-cji-ranjan-gogoi-in-sexual-harassment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/protests-outside-sc-against-in-house-committee-clean-chit-to-cji-ranjan-gogoi-in-sexual-harassment-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests outside SC against In House Committee 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-312041 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/protest-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest-696x477.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest-612x420.jpg 612w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/protest.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several women lawyers and activists on Tuesday protested outside the Supreme Court, a day after a three-member in-house inquiry panel gave clean chit to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in sexual harassment case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amid noisy scenes, the Delhi police detained the protestors during the demonstration and imposed Section 144 in the area to prevent further escalation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday a Supreme Court in-house inquiry had given CJI Gogoi a clean chit in the matter. The in-house committee 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;\">The panel, which also includes, Justice Indira Banerjee and\u00a0Justice Indu Malhotra had said that the report of a committee constituted as part of the in-house inquiry was \u201cnot liable to be made public\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former woman apex court staffer had withdrawn from the in-house inquiry on April 30 after its third in-chamber hearing, saying that she felt she was\u00a0unlikely to get justice from this committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She had raised concerns as she was not allowed to take her lawyer to the hearing. She also found the atmosphere of the committee \u2018very frightening\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several women lawyers and activists on Tuesday protested outside the Supreme Court, a day after a three-member in-house inquiry panel gave clean chit to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in sexual harassment case. Amid noisy scenes, the Delhi police detained the protestors during the demonstration and imposed Section 144 in the area to prevent further escalation. 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