Facing mounting pressure to quit as as chief of the West Bengal human rights panel, Justice A K Ganguly today met Governor M K Narayanan, fuelling talk about his resignation, but the former Supreme Court judge declined to comment on it.
"I won't comment," he told PTI when asked whether he had resigned as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) following allegations of sexual harassment by a law intern.
Justice Ganguly met the Governor at Raj Bhavan here for about 45 minutes which triggered speculation about his resignation, but he left evading mediapersons.
Raj Bhavan sources also declined to divulge what transpired during Justice Ganguly's meeting with the Governor.
Earlier in the day, the former judge, said he was yet to take a decision on resigning as chairman of WBHRC.
He declined to comment on his telephonic conversation with former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee.
Sorabjee had yesterday said that Justice Ganguly had told him over telephone that he was contemplating resigning as chairman of WBHRC.
A three-judge Supreme Court panel had indicted Justice Ganguly by holding that the statement of the intern, both written and oral, had prima facie disclosed "an act of unwelcome behaviour (unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of sexual nature)" by him in the Le Meridien hotel in Delhi on December 24, 2012.
Justice Ganguly has denied the allegations and blamed "powerful interests" of trying to tarnish his image because of certain judgements delivered by him.
