MP judge protests senior’s elevation

THE JUDGE HAS ACCUSED JUSTICE GUPTA OF ABUSE OF AUTHORITY AND CASTEISM

- UtkarshAnand

Madhya Pradesh judicial officer Aditi Kumar Sharma, whose dismissal was quashed by the Supreme Court earlier this year, has resigned from service in protest against the elevation of a senior district judge whom she accused of caste-based harassment, abuse of authority and institutional vendetta. In a strongly-worded resignation letter addressed to the Madhya Pradesh high court chief justice and seen by HT, Sharma said she was stepping down “not because I lost faith in justice, but because justice lost its way inside the very institution sworn to protect it.”

“I leave this institution with no medals, no celebration, and no bitterness— only the bitter truth that the judiciary failed me. But worse ~ it failed itself. This letter of resignation is not closure. It is a state-