A fresh controversy has erupted with another woman intern accusing a Supreme Court judge, who has since retired, of sexual harassment and demands being made for an inquiry by the apex court into it.
TV channel CNN-IBN named the judge, who retired more than a year ago, is currently presiding over a tribunal. The incident allegedly when he was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
The woman, who was officially interning with the judge which began in May, 2011, had recently filed a complaint with the Supreme Court along with an affidavit seeking action against him.
The court, however, refused to go into the issue citing the December 5, 2013 full-court resolution in the Justice A K Ganguly case making it clear that "representations made against former Judges of this Court are not entertainable by the administration of the Supreme Court."
Court sources confirmed that the intern was told that her application cannot be entertained in view of the full- court resolution and "she was at liberty to take appropriate remedy under the law".
Reports indicated that the intern, like the first victim, was a former student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She is said to be contemplating filing a petition in the apex court challenging the resolution passed by the full-court.
Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising, who had spearheaded a campaign against former Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly demanding action against him in a similar incident, has now come out in support of the second intern.
"I am very clear that action should be taken and an inquiry should be done by the Supreme Court against the then sitting judge against whom the allegations have been levelled," she told PTI.
