Sexual harassment allegations: CJI meets inquiry committee

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

Ranjan Wednesday met the three-member in-house committee looking into allegations of levelled against him by a former woman employee of the Supreme Court, an official source said.

"A letter of request was issued to the asking him to meet the committee and he responded to it and he met the committee on this issue," the source said.

The in-house inquiry committee is headed by Justice S A Bobde, who is the senior-most in the after the CJI, and its two other members are women judges of the apex court -- justices and

The woman, who levelled the allegations, walked out of the inquiry committee on Tuesday, raising objections over various issues, including denial of her lawyer's presence.

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First Published: Wed, May 01 2019. 21:55 IST