New Delhi: The government seems to be paving the way for action against former Supreme Court judge Justice AK Ganguly after allegations of sexual harassment against him. Sources say that the Home Ministry is now seeking legal opinion on the matter.
Sources say the legal opinion is being sought to ascertain if an FIR by the Delhi Police is needed to proceed in the matter.
The procedure now is that the Home Ministry will send a report to the President who will ask the Supreme Court for an enquiry. As per the Human Rights Act, the Chairperson of a Human Rights Commission can be removed only on grounds of proven misbehaviour as ascertained by the Supreme Court.
Pressure has been mounting on AK Ganguly to resign from the post of Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission in the wake of sexual harassment charges leveled against him by a woman lawyer. Justice Ganguly has sought four weeks' time from National Commission for Women which had asked him to explain his position.
The Commission had taken a suo motu cognisance in the case and had sent notice to him on December 6 to explain his position post the indictment by the three-member panel of the Supreme Court.
Ganguly, who retired from the apex court more than a year ago, was accused by the intern of sexually harassing her, a charge strongly denied by him, in a hotel room in Delhi in 2012.
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