The Supreme Court’s in-house committee cleared Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the sexual harassment allegations raised by a former employee, saying it found “no substance” in the woman’s complaint.

Citing a Supreme Court judgment from 2003, the committee said that the report is not liable to be made public.

Senior editor of The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani questions why the CJI appears to be above the law, and asks that if the Supreme Court can't give justice, then who will?

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