AK Ganguly SC report private info : Rejecting a Right to Information (RTI) request for the Supreme Court’s report on its recent sexual harassment complaint proceedings against its former justice AK Ganguly, the SC said: “The disclosure of information and reports emanating out of a self-evolved mecha...

The Delhi high court’s order, restricting media coverage of the sexual harassment allegations against Swatanter Kumar, should give the Supreme Court cause to consider its Sahara gag order decision, argues Chinamyi Arun, research director at the Centre for Communication Governance at NLU Delhi and fellow at the CIS Bangalore.

The Delhi high court yesterday restrained anyone from publishing or broadcasting the detailed sexual harassment allegations against Swatanter Kumar, without stating prominently that they are “mere allegations”, as a battery of counsel appeared for the former Supreme Court judge in the court yesterday.

Swatanter wins media blackout : The Delhi HC has provided former SC judge Swatanter Kumar interim relief in the defamation suit he had filed against three media houses. The HC prohibited the media from publishing anything beyond the court’s orders in his ex-intern’s sexual harassment PIL against him...

Swatanter Kumar ex-intern PIL admitted : Former SC judge Swatanter Kumar’s ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata who had made sexual harassment allegations against him yesterday moved a petition in the SC for inquiry against him. The intern challenged the SC’s 5 December 2013 full court resolution that it cou...

Another graduate of NUJS Kolkata has alleged that she was sexually harassed by a then-sitting Supreme Court judge in 2011, reported the Indian Express today. The story follows in the wake of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman AK Ganguly’s resignation after claims that he had harass...

Former Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly said in his resignation letter from the West Bengal Human Rights Commission that he bore his “detractors” no ill will but continued denying all allegations. He wrote, according to IBN : Dear Excellency, I would like to affirmatively say that allegations which are ap...

Justice AK Ganguly resigned as West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman today , reported IBN Live citing sources. Ganguly reportedly met West Bengal governor MK Narayanan in Kolkata to submit his resignation. Senior counsel and ex-attorney general Soli Sorabjee told The Hindu yesterday that Gang...

LI reporter Prachi Shrivastava argues that, to date, the pillars of the Indian constitution have been remarkably efficient and fair in the investigation and reporting of the sexual harassment allegations against former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly.

Former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, who is also chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), has quit as honorary professor at NUJS Kolkata, the alma mater of a former intern who accused him of sexual harassment. Ganguly wrote, according to NDTV : “I voluntarily opt out,...

The Union cabinet has greenlit the proposed presidential reference to remove West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman AK Ganguly, for allegedly having sexually harassed an intern. President Pranab Mukherjee will now be able to take a call on whether the reference to remove Ganguly under the Huma...

Twelve faculty members of NUJS Kolkata, the alma mater of the former student who accused retired Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly of sexual harassment during her internship a year ago, have issued a statement in her support.

As former Justice AK Ganguly wrote an 8-page letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) earlier today questioning the charges against him and implying a political conspiracy, the intern (“SJ”) who alleged she was sexually harassed by him after his retirement, has made a public statement of her own q...

The way will soon be clear for the President to ask for an inquiry into sex harassment allegations against the ex-judge. Question is, how, if at all, would it stick under law?

As Goolam Vahanvati will submit a legal opinion by tomorrow on the presidential reference to remove AK Ganguly from the WBHRC, Legally India has seen a copy of the inquiry’s report, which is not confidential anymore.

The government would request the removal of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman AK Ganguly, who has been accused of sexual harassment, by making a presidential reference to the Supreme Court, reported the Times of India . The Centre may seek to get Ganguly removed under section 23(1...

Former Justice AK Ganguly, in his capacity as West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman, took suo motu cognisance of a case of “outraging the modesty of a woman” and violent assault that the commission learned about in a newspaper. A WBHRC bench consisting of Ganguly and member Naparajit ...

Additional solicitor general Indira Jaising has written an open letter to former Justice AK Ganguly with leaked details of the testimony of the intern alleging Ganguly had sexually harassed her. The letter was published by the Indian Express today and contains long passages from the intern’s confide...

Former Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly continued insisting that he would not resign from his chair at the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC). Calls for him to step down grew meanwhile, with the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, Congress and additional solicitor general Indira Jaising asking for...

Nikhil Kanekal explores the media furore and arguments surrounding the swirling #InternJudge sex harassment case that has thrown media, bench and bar into a tizzy.