Supreme Court dismissed PIL to stay proceedings against Justice Ganguly

The bench also dismissed another similar PIL filed on the issue.

Justice Ganguly, who had already distanced himself from the petitions, in a recent conversation with former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee had conveyed his intention to resign as chairman of the WBHRC. The former AG told Ganguly that it was a “wise decision”.

A three-judge Supreme Court panel had indicted Justice Ganguly by holding that the statement of the intern, both written and oral, had prima facie disclosed “an act of unwelcome behaviour (unwelcome verbal/non-verbal conduct of sexual nature)” by the judge with her in the Le Meridien hotel room on December 24 last year.

Justice Ganguly has denied the allegations of the law intern and blamed “powerful interests” of trying to tarnish his image due to certain judgements delivered by him.  

In a letter of Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam last month, Justice Ganguly said he had neither harassed the law intern nor made any unwelcome advances towards her or any other female intern.