the ex chief justice of India, Justice Ranjan Gogoi controversially decided to sit in on a bench to hear allegations of sexual harassment against himself. Speaking to NDTV, he said, In retrospect, perhaps my participation on the bench hearing sexual harassment charges against me was not correct. Let's let's jump into what has been the most contentious part of your tenure, which you tackle squarely in The book, which was the charges of sexual harassment levelled against you by junior member of the Supreme Court Now you actually, with the charges came you convened a hearing which you presided over. Doesn't that violates every principle of natural justice that you preside over hearing where you yourself of the accused in my book you have two things so far is this chapter is concerned? Yes. You have the order passed on 20th of April? Yes, in the bench of which I was a member. Yes, again signed the order. If you have read that order, the order is a kind of an advice to the media to be restrained in reporting incident. But so that is the order. There's no question of any effective order being passed, which has the effect of exonerating me as people later. Oh, hell. Tumble order in the second. But I'm saying just starting off with the first principles that you can mean. A hearing is coming to that as where you yourself are the accused. I was coming in my book. There is a sentence that in in retrospect, my participation in the bench right was not mentioned. It in hindsight that was a mistake is mentioned. It was not correct. But then there is also aligned in the book. Yes, chief justices don't descend from heaven. 40 years of reputation built up over hard work is set to be destroyed. You are required to take a call, take a call, some part of it goes wrong, and Supreme Court bench that her the charges a sexual harassment against justice. Gogoi, when he was the chief justice of India, asked the media to be careful in reporting wild and scandalous allegations. But Justice Gogoi, who was himself a part of that Ben says it was an ineffective order. When you say effective order, even if you see what the nature of that hearing and the order was, where you say that the media should consider whether wild and scandalous allegations that undermined the judiciary should be reported on. Doesn't that already, in a way, prejudice the perception of what those allegations were that they were wild in scandalous? It is. It is a kind of an advisory order when you are reporting while and scandalous allegations. Yes, before you reports be exercised, do how does anyone know whether they're wild or scandalous or not? They may be genuine, but this already seems to infer that they're wild and scandalous. They're buying is setting into yes, thereby prejudicing the possibility of her know mist of affair has become know Mr Way of looking at it. What the bench was trying to say that allegations that are violent, scandalous, yes, should be reported with due care and caution, that's all. So it again, again, reading the order you come to the conclusion that the allegations level legends the siege, violence candidates that sensitive Is that Is that the purpose of I'm saying? That seems to be that That seems to be the influence on minute Yes, the bench could've passed an order. The media is restrained from reporting the mention passed it order the bench could have said there are allegations levelled against the CIA of sexual harassment. Media will not publish it. Then where would you be? No, no, Gogoi know. But that that can't be a defence. The ideal situation. The idea. Xena, I decided. Okay. There is no defence, right? There is no defence. Okay? I don't have to defend anything. Okay? Whatever to say you are capable of interpreting into X. I am capable of interpreting auction.
