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Supreme Court sets up 3-judge committee to probe sexual harassment charge by intern

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today constituted a committee of three judges to inquire into allegations of sexual harassment by an intern against a then sitting judge, now retired.The committee consisting of Justices R M



In a shocking case, a young lawyer intern has alleged that a recently retired Supreme court judge had sexually harassed her when she was interning with him.
 
The girl, who graduated from Kolkata-based National University of Juridical Sciences this year, said the judge, who was "old enough to be her grandfather", harassed her in a hotel room.
 
She made the sensational charge first in a blog she wrote on November 6 for 'Journal of Indian Law and Society', and repeated it on Monday in an interview to the website 'Legally India'.
 

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