<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the personal presence of the CBI director, the Delhi Police commissioner and the IB chief at 12.30 pm after going through a lawyer's affidavit alleging conspiracy to frame CJI Ranjan Gogoi in a "false" sexual harassment case.</p>.<p>"It is something very serious and disturbing with regard to independence of judiciary," a bench of Justices Arun Mishra, R F Nariman and Deepak Gupta said after going through the materials furnished by an advocate, Utsav Singh Bains.</p>.<p>During the brief hearing, Bains gave a sealed envelope which contained what the court said "something very serious".</p>.<p>He said the independence of judiciary is under serious threat. There are some sensitive information and evidence which must be collected through the judicial inquiry.</p>.<p>Attorney General K K Venugopal objected to some portion of the affidavit filed by Bains, wherein he alleged some fixers and former judges were involved in seeking favourable orders.</p>.<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted elements of truth must be examined. Let an SIT be set up, truth must come out, he said.</p>.<p>Senior advocate Indira Jaising sought to intervene into the matter, questioning parallel proceedings but the court asked her not to speak for now.</p>.<p>The court decided to seek presence of top officers and resume hearing at 3 pm.</p>.<p>Notably, the court had on Tuesday asked Bains to produce materials to substantiate his allegations that a fixer and front man of designated terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, Romesh Sharma and a corporate giant ganged up to frame CJI in a false case of sexual harassment.</p>.<p>Taking up the suo motu matter registered on Saturday after sensational charge by an ex-woman employee against the CJI got published on some news websites, the court had issued notice to Bains who had filed an affidavit, alleging he was offered a bribe of Rs 1.5 crore to hold a press conference in this regard.</p>.<p>In his affidavit, Bains claimed he was”privy to certain events involving the said corporate figure and will submit in a sealed cover the events and list of the involved persons to this court should it so direct him.”</p>.<p>In a separate decision, a committee of senior most judge, Justice S A Bobde, Justice N V Ramana and Justice Indira Banerjee was formed to conduct in-house inquiry into charges made by an ex woman employee against the CJI.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the personal presence of the CBI director, the Delhi Police commissioner and the IB chief at 12.30 pm after going through a lawyer's affidavit alleging conspiracy to frame CJI Ranjan Gogoi in a "false" sexual harassment case.</p>.<p>"It is something very serious and disturbing with regard to independence of judiciary," a bench of Justices Arun Mishra, R F Nariman and Deepak Gupta said after going through the materials furnished by an advocate, Utsav Singh Bains.</p>.<p>During the brief hearing, Bains gave a sealed envelope which contained what the court said "something very serious".</p>.<p>He said the independence of judiciary is under serious threat. There are some sensitive information and evidence which must be collected through the judicial inquiry.</p>.<p>Attorney General K K Venugopal objected to some portion of the affidavit filed by Bains, wherein he alleged some fixers and former judges were involved in seeking favourable orders.</p>.<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted elements of truth must be examined. Let an SIT be set up, truth must come out, he said.</p>.<p>Senior advocate Indira Jaising sought to intervene into the matter, questioning parallel proceedings but the court asked her not to speak for now.</p>.<p>The court decided to seek presence of top officers and resume hearing at 3 pm.</p>.<p>Notably, the court had on Tuesday asked Bains to produce materials to substantiate his allegations that a fixer and front man of designated terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, Romesh Sharma and a corporate giant ganged up to frame CJI in a false case of sexual harassment.</p>.<p>Taking up the suo motu matter registered on Saturday after sensational charge by an ex-woman employee against the CJI got published on some news websites, the court had issued notice to Bains who had filed an affidavit, alleging he was offered a bribe of Rs 1.5 crore to hold a press conference in this regard.</p>.<p>In his affidavit, Bains claimed he was”privy to certain events involving the said corporate figure and will submit in a sealed cover the events and list of the involved persons to this court should it so direct him.”</p>.<p>In a separate decision, a committee of senior most judge, Justice S A Bobde, Justice N V Ramana and Justice Indira Banerjee was formed to conduct in-house inquiry into charges made by an ex woman employee against the CJI.</p>
