Let Bobde Panel Finish Probe First, Says Ex-Judge Patnaik

He has been tasked with examining ‘larger plot’ against CJI

- Krishnadas Rajagopal

Justice A.K. Patnaik, the retired Supreme Court judge appointed by the court to check a lawyer’s claim of a “larger conspiracy” against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, said on Friday that he would not begin his assignment until the in-house inquiry into a former court staffer’s complaint of sexual harassment against the Chief Justice was completed.

The former judge said a scrutiny of the conspiracy claim could wait as he was not on a deadline.