Kolkata: Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising today claimed there was no overzealousness on the part of the Supreme Court in dealing with the issue of Justice (retd) A K Ganguly as was alleged by former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.
“To say that it is overreach, I think it is unjust on the institution,” Jaising said at a press conference here seeking removal of Justice Ganguly from the post of WBHRC chairman after he was indicted for harassment of a woman law intern.
“What the Supreme Court has done is an internal as well as just procedure to look into the complaint. I will say it was rightly done because there was no other forum which she (the law intern) had gone to,” she said.
Jaising has written to the Prime Minister seeking removal of Ganguly from the post of WBHRC Chairman.
The intern is yet to file a police complaint regarding the incident that allegedly happened on December 24 last year.
Somnath Chatterjee, an eminent barrister, had said about the exercise by the apex court on the complaint by the intern that “I would say it is overzealousness.”
