NEW DELHI: A lawyer Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to CBI to register an FIR into alleged conspiracy to “fix” CJI Ranjan Gogoi in a “concocted false sexual harassment” case.
Lawyer M L Sharma, unsuccessfully mentioned his PIL for urgent hearing against seven activist advocates before two benches headed by the CJI and Justice Arun Mishra respectively.
While the CJI asked him to mention the case for urgent hearing “before some other bench”, Justice Mishra declined the prayer for urgent hearing by saying, “I am bottom down (in seniority).”
Sharma has named activist lawyers like Prashant Bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, Kamini Jaiswal, Vrinda Grover, Indira Jaising, Nina Gupta Bhasin and Dushyant Dave as parties in his PIL, he said the actions of some of the lawyers amounted to “contempt of court” and there was a “planned conspiracy” to defame the CJI. (PTI)
