Lawyer: Plot to frame CJI hatched by group of fixers & Dawood aide
He further alleged that he came to know from a reliable person that the conspiracy had been hatched by Romesh Sharma, an alleged close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, along with a group of fixers who were running "cash for judgment racket" in the court.
In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the lawyer alleged that the CJI was being targeted because he took decisive steps to insulate judiciary from fixers. "The deponent (the lawyer) is 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," the lawyer said in his affidavit.
"That on April 19, a very reliable person, strictly on the condition of anonymity and in good faith, informed the deponent about a corporate figure who tried to approach a Supreme Court judge to get a favourable order in a high-profile case listed before this court but was unsuccessful and then the said corporate figure attempted to get the case transferred from the court of that SC judge but did not succeed and thus ganged up with an alleged fixer by the name of Romesh Sharma and his aides to frame the CJI in a false case of sexual harassment to pressure him to resign," the affidavit said.
As the lawyer was not present in the court when the case was taken up, the bench issued notice to him and asked him to be personally present in the court on Wednesday and place the evidence to substantiate his claim. It also directed Delhi police to provide him security as he claimed threat to his life and asked police to ensure his presence on Wednesday.
In one of the paragraphs in the affidavit, Bains narrated how he came to know about a sinister design by a "gang of fixers" to target the CJI and later other SC judges. In paragraph 19 of his affidavit, Bains said, "The source told the deponent that Romesh Sharma also ganged up with disgruntled employees and former employees of the SC, who actively conspired to frame the CJI in the sexual harassment complaint."
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References
- ^ Ranjan Gogoi (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
- ^ Romesh Sharma (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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