The Times of India today revealed further details of the sexual harassment allegations made by a former intern (“SJ”) of ex-Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly.

Citing sources close to SJ, the TOI wrote that she had told the three-judge inquiry that Ganguly had “made advances towards her despite her clear disapproval, and asserted that she had evidence to back up her charge”.

The TOI described how in her account to the panel of three Supreme Court judges and subsequent affidavits, she alleged that Ganguly had repeatedly requested her to come to the central Delhi five-star hotel where he was staying in December 2012.

Ganguly was in Delhi as a “one-man committee” for the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in an inquiry into football violence during a Mohun Bagan and East Bengal match, wrote the paper.

SJ had accompanied him as a research assistant from Kolkata; Legally India understands that she had stayed at a hostel in Delhi during the assignment.

The TOI wrote that SJ “alleged that after AIFF officials left the [hotel] room, Justice Ganguly offered her wine while himself having a few glasses saying it was customary to drink wine on the eve of Christmas”: 

In her affidavit, she gave a detailed account of how the retired judge made advances towards her despite her clear and vocal disapproval of his conduct. She alleged that after she rushed out of the hotel room, the retired judge followed her down to the lobby uttering apologies… The law graduate claimed that she had evidences to back her allegations.

After the apex court released his name last Friday, Ganguly denied that he had sexually harassed any interns and said he was a “victim of circumstance”. He also told The Hindu yesterday that he had not yet taken a decision on whether he would step down as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC).

SJ had said in an interview with Legally India on 11 November that she and other interns had been harassed by an unnamed former Supreme Court judge, which was partially corroborated by a second former intern of Ganguly’s on Facebook. The second intern also claimed that after berating Ganguly for his alleged sexual harassment of SJ, the judge had promised never to “misbehave with another lady” again.

SJ had deposed before a three-member judicial inquiry looking into the matter, which held seven meetings, and submitted three affidavits, according to a court official’s statement on Friday.

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir and former solicitor general Soli Sorabjee have come out in public support of Ganguly, while West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress party officials, the BJP, senior lawyers and protests outside Ganguly’s office have made calls for him to step down from the WBHRC or for a criminal inquiry to start.