SC dismisses plea against action on Justice Ganguly
January 06, 2014 12:34
The Supreme Court has refused to hear a PIL seeking a direction to restrain the government from taking any action against former Apex court judge Justice Ganguly, who faces charges of sexually harassing a law intern.
The PIL also sought quashing of the report in which a three-member panel of apex court judges indicted Ganguly for unwelcome behaviour against the law intern, who has accused the judge of sexually harassing him in a Delhi hotel last year.
The PIL was filed in the apex court on Friday. The petitioner said Ganguly was being maligned and was a victim of conspiracy as he had in an arbitration suspended Mohun Bagan for walking out of a football league match against the East Bengal club.
The All India Football Federation subsequently revoked Mohun Bagan's suspension but slapped a Rs 2 crore fine on it.
The three-judge committee looking into the allegations of sexual harassment levied by an intern on retired Justice Ganguly prima facie disclosed an "act of unwelcome behaviour" and "conduct of sexual nature" on the part of the retired judge.
The committee had observed that "statement of (victim) both written and oral, prima facie discloses an act of unwelcome behaviour (unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of sexual nature) by Ganguly judge with the intern in a hotel last year.
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