The Supreme Court has appointed a committee consisting of justices R M Lodha, H L Dattu and Ranjana P Desai, which will start work from this evening to look into the allegations of sexual harassment by a law student. 

Chief Justice P Sathasivam says that, "As the head of the institution, I am also concerned about the allegation and anxious whether the statement is true or not. The committee will go into the whole affair and find out
the facts and prepare the report. We are taking steps and in cases of sexual harassment, we cannot take it lightly.

Stella James, a young lawyer, blogged last week that she was sexually assaulted while interning with a retired Supreme Court judge in December 2012.

This was the time of the Delhi gang-rape protests and she wrote, 'In the strange irony of situations that our world is replete with, the protests were the backdrop of my own experience.

"...I dodged police barricades and fatigue to go to the assistance of a highly reputed, recently retired Supreme Court judge whom I was working under during my penultimate semester.

"For my supposed diligence, I was rewarded with sexual assault (not physically injurious, but nevertheless violating) from a man old enough to be my grandfather.'