Former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar keeps mum on allegations
Lawyers, women rights activists come forward to support intern's demand for probe.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-01-12 09:40 GMT
New Delhi: Facing an intern’s allegation that he had sexually harassed her, former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar made no comments on Saturday despite repeated attempts by the media to get his reaction.
Justice Kumar, currently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), had spoken to a couple of newspapers on Friday denying the allegation as “totally false” and describing them as “some kind of conspiracy”.
Meanwhile, Justice Kumar sent a legal notice to certain media organisations demanding an apology from them within 24 hours for publicising the “incredulous and false” allegations.
The intern’s demand for a Supreme Court probe into her allegations received more support from Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising, leading lawyers Kamini Jaiswal, Harish Salve and Vrinda Grover besides women rights activist Kavitha Krishnan.
Jaising demanded that there should be a system in the Supreme Court to probe allegations of sexual harassment against judges. The court had a system for staff and lawyers but there was no system covering judges, which was necessary.