The following request has been sent by me to the Chief Justice of India and to several others:
14 January 2014
To
(i)
Chief Justice of India , Supreme
Court of India
(ii)
Chief Justice Ramana, Delhi High Court
(iii)
The Registrar General,
Delhi High
Court
(iv)
Chairman, Bar Council
of Delhi
(v)
All other members of
Bar Council of Delhi
(vi)
Delhi Police Commissioner
(vii)
Registrar Vigilance, Delhi High Court
To
the Bar Council of Delhi, to the Chief Justice of India, to the Chief Justice
of the Delhi High Court, to the Registrar General of the Delhi High Court, to
the Police Commissioner for Delhi, and to All Others,
Ref: Complaint by intern against retired Supreme Court of
India Judge Swatanter Kumar
I have filed a whistle-blower corruption and right to life
Writ Petition pending in the Delhi High Court since February 2012 – Writ
Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra versus General
Electric Company & Others.
CM 2477/ 2013 (attached) pending in this matter also seeks
the following relief:
“Direct the Government of India
(Respondent no. 5 herein) to act on the Petitioner’s complaint forwarded to the
President and Prime Minister of India by email dated February 12, 2013 and to
constitute a high level complaints committee in accordance with the Supreme
Court’s directions in Vishaka & Others v. State of Rajasthan & Others
and in Medha Kotwal Lele and Others v. Union of India and Others to redress the
petitioner’s complaint of sexual harassment against Mr Soli j Sorabjee, when
the latter held the constitutional post of Attorney General of India”.
I am writing in connection with the complaint of sexual
harassment made by a female intern against retired Supreme Court of India Judge
Swatanter Kumar.
I request that this complaint be properly investigated in
accordance with law and that the matter not be brushed under the carpet as
suggested by Mr Harish Salve.
I am shocked to see the likes of Soli J Sorabjee and Rajiv
Dhawan attacking the intern in news interviews and coming to the support of
Swatanter Kumar.
Several
lawyers have confirmed that (sitting Delhi High Court Judge) Gita Mittal and
Swatanter Kumar were in a sexual relationship when she was his junior and also
after
Swatanter
Kumar became a judge. Swatanter Kumar then used his judicial position to have
Gita Mittal appointed as a Delhi High Court judge. When Gita Mittal's name for
a judicial appointment was being considered, some lawyers had distributed
pamphlets in the Delhi High Court that Gita Mittal and Swatanter Kumar (then in
Chandigarh High Court) had been secretly meeting in a resort midway between
Chandigarh and Delhi for their sexual assignations.
I
was told by several lawyers that Gita Mittal is corrupt and can be approached
either directly or through Swatanter Kumar.
I
have also learnt that Delhi High court staff including court stenographers had
also complained about Swatanter Kumar's inappropriate behaviour when he was a
Delhi High court judge.
Many other lawyers openly corroborate the reputation of
Swatanter Kumar as a sexually licentious man who has a history of using his
position as a judge to sexually exploit staff, interns, lawyers and even women
officers from the lower judiciary. One Delhi High Court lawyer told me that
Swatanter Kumar was “habituated” to this kind of behaviour. Another woman
lawyer informed me that while in the Bombay High Court, Swatanter Kumar was
always found in hotel rooms and that he had destroyed the careers of several
woman magistrates who had refused to succumb to his demands for sexual favours
and gratification.
There seems to be a male lobby of powerful lawyers and
judges who have been sexually exploiting women lawyers and court staff and who
come to each other’s defence when charges get levelled against any one of them.
Rajiv Dhawan was accused in 2000 of sexual harassment and
assault by a young lawyer working in an NGO headed by him called PILSAARC.
Rajiv Dhawan had not only attempted to force himself upon this lady but had
beaten her when she resisted and had even banged her head against the wall. She
had bruises all over her body after this assault. This matter was hushed up with
the help of Soli J Sorabjee. The lady was pressured to accept money from Rajiv
Dhawan and to withdraw her complaint. She was hounded out of the profession and
no one knows where she is now. Rajiv Dhawan was protected and is still
strutting around the corridors of the Supreme Court of India and is publicly defending
other prominent persons like Swatanter Kumar accused of sexual misconduct.
Soli J Sorabjee has a long history of sexually exploiting
his juniors and several lawyers and this is open knowledge in the corridors of
the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court.
In 2001, Soli Sorabjee sexually harassed me as described in
CM 2477/ 2013 pending in WP Civil 1280/ 2012.
In 2013, Soli J Sorabjee is busy publicly defending both A K
Ganguly and Swatanter Kumar (both retired Supreme Court of India Judges)
against charges of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
I was sexually harassed by Raian Karanjawala around 1999 and
he is the person who recommended that I work with Soli J Sorabjee. Raian Karanjawala
was aware that Soli J Sorabjee had sexually harassed me.
Raian Karanjawala has had sexual relations with his female
juniors over several years. One of them Nandini Gore is rumoured to have borne
him a son (Rahul Gore) whose facial features resemble Raian Karanjawala and not
Nandini Gore’s husband. See the attached photographs.
In 2009-2010, I heard rumours that Raian Karanjawala had had
a sexual relationship with one of his juniors called Niharika Aditi Nanda.
While working at Karanjawala & Co. for briefly in 2010, it also appeared to
me that Raian Karanjawala was sexually involved with another junior working in
his office Manasi Gupta.
Raian Karanjawala is now defending Tarun Tejpal in his rape
criminal case. Raian Karanjawala’s law firm also sent the intimidating notice
on behalf of Swatanter Kumar to silence the media from reporting on the intern’s
charges of sexual harassment against Swatanter Kumar.
Sexual harassment charges levelled against sitting Delhi
High Court judges (V K Jain and Suresh Kait) and recently retired Delhi High
Court Judge (M L Mehta) were covered up without a proper enquiry and after
pressurizing the complainants to withdraw their complaints. DHCBA chairman A S
Chandhiok played a role in this cover-up.
I am shocked that a man of Swatanter Kumar’s proclivity was
not only appointed as a judge but went on to act as Chief Justice of the Bombay
High Court, a judge of the Supreme Court and is now heading the National Green
Tribunal. Lawyers like Harish Salve (who was Soli J Sorabjee’s junior) use and
exploit this weakness of Swatanter Kumar to obtain favourable court orders. I
am concerned that Harish Salve’s involvement in the matter involving the
complaint against Swatanter Kumar is intended to cover up this complaint and to
protect Swatanter Kumar.
Seema Sapra
Advocate
Read the Delhi High Court order in Swatanter Kumar's matter at http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/MAN/judgement/16-01-2014/MAN16012014S1022014.pdf
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM
Subject: Complaint against Swatanter Kumar - message to Chief Justice of India from General Electric whistleblower and advocate – Seema Sapra - Writ Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra v. General Electric Company and Others in the Delhi High Court
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14 January 2014
To
(i) Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India
(ii) Chief Justice Ramana, Delhi High Court
(iii) The Registrar General, Delhi High Court
(iv) Chairman, Bar Council of Delhi
(v) All other members of Bar Council of Delhi
(vi) Delhi Police Commissioner
(vii) Registrar Vigilance, Delhi High Court
To the Bar Council of Delhi, to the Chief Justice of India, to the
Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, to the Registrar General of the
Delhi High Court, to the Police Commissioner for Delhi, and to All
Others,
Ref: Complaint by intern against retired Supreme Court of India Judge
Swatanter Kumar
I have filed a whistle-blower corruption and right to life Writ
Petition pending in the Delhi High Court since February 2012 – Writ
Petition (Civil) 1280/ 2012 – in the matter of Seema Sapra versus
General Electric Company & Others.
CM 2477/ 2013 (attached) pending in this matter also seeks the following relief:
“Direct the Government of India (Respondent no. 5 herein) to act on
the Petitioner’s complaint forwarded to the President and Prime
Minister of India by email dated February 12, 2013 and to constitute a
high level complaints committee in accordance with the Supreme Court’s
directions in Vishaka & Others v. State of Rajasthan & Others and in
Medha Kotwal Lele and Others v. Union of India and Others to redress
the petitioner’s complaint of sexual harassment against Mr Soli j
Sorabjee, when the latter held the constitutional post of Attorney
General of India”.
I am writing in connection with the complaint of sexual harassment
made by a female intern against retired Supreme Court of India Judge
Swatanter Kumar.
I request that this complaint be properly investigated in accordance
with law and that the matter not be brushed under the carpet as
suggested by Mr Harish Salve.
I am shocked to see the likes of Soli J Sorabjee and Rajiv Dhawan
attacking the intern in news interviews and coming to the support of
Swatanter Kumar.
Several lawyers have confirmed that (sitting Delhi High Court Judge)
Gita Mittal and Swatanter Kumar were in a sexual relationship when she
was his junior and also after
Swatanter Kumar became a judge. Swatanter Kumar then used his judicial
position to have Gita Mittal appointed as a Delhi High Court judge.
When Gita Mittal's name for a judicial appointment was being
considered, some lawyers had distributed pamphlets in the Delhi High
Court that Gita Mittal and Swatanter Kumar (then in Chandigarh High
Court) had been secretly meeting in a resort midway between Chandigarh
and Delhi for their sexual assignations.
I was told by several lawyers that Gita Mittal is corrupt and can be
approached either directly or through Swatanter Kumar.
I have also learnt that Delhi High court staff including court
stenographers had also complained about Swatanter Kumar's
inappropriate behaviour when he was a Delhi High court judge.
Many other lawyers openly corroborate the reputation of Swatanter
Kumar as a sexually licentious man who has a history of using his
position as a judge to sexually exploit staff, interns, lawyers and
even women officers from the lower judiciary. One Delhi High Court
lawyer told me that Swatanter Kumar was “habituated” to this kind of
behaviour. Another woman lawyer informed me that while in the Bombay
High Court, Swatanter Kumar was always found in hotel rooms and that
he had destroyed the careers of several woman magistrates who had
refused to succumb to his demands for sexual favours and
gratification.
There seems to be a male lobby of powerful lawyers and judges who have
been sexually exploiting women lawyers and court staff and who come to
each other’s defence when charges get levelled against any one of
them.
Rajiv Dhawan was accused in 2000 of sexual harassment and assault by a
young lawyer working in an NGO headed by him called PILSAARC. Rajiv
Dhawan had not only attempted to force himself upon this lady but had
beaten her when she resisted and had even banged her head against the
wall. She had bruises all over her body after this assault. This
matter was hushed up with the help of Soli J Sorabjee. The lady was
pressured to accept money from Rajiv Dhawan and to withdraw her
complaint. She was hounded out of the profession and no one knows
where she is now. Rajiv Dhawan was protected and is still strutting
around the corridors of the Supreme Court of India and is publicly
defending other prominent persons like Swatanter Kumar accused of
sexual misconduct.
Soli J Sorabjee has a long history of sexually exploiting his juniors
and several lawyers and this is open knowledge in the corridors of the
Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court.
In 2001, Soli Sorabjee sexually harassed me as described in CM 2477/
2013 pending in WP Civil 1280/ 2012.
In 2013, Soli J Sorabjee is busy publicly defending both A K Ganguly
and Swatanter Kumar (both retired Supreme Court of India Judges)
against charges of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
I was sexually harassed by Raian Karanjawala around 1999 and he is the
person who recommended that I work with Soli J Sorabjee. Raian
Karanjawala was aware that Soli J Sorabjee had sexually harassed me.
Raian Karanjawala has had sexual relations with his female juniors
over several years. One of them Nandini Gore is rumoured to have borne
him a son (Rahul Gore) whose facial features resemble Raian
Karanjawala and not Nandini Gore’s husband. See the attached
photographs.
In 2009-2010, I heard rumours that Raian Karanjawala had had a sexual
relationship with one of his juniors called Niharika Aditi Nanda.
While working at Karanjawala & Co. for briefly in 2010, it also
appeared to me that Raian Karanjawala was sexually involved with
another junior working in his office Manasi Gupta.
Raian Karanjawala is now defending Tarun Tejpal in his rape criminal
case. Raian Karanjawala’s law firm also sent the intimidating notice
on behalf of Swatanter Kumar to silence the media from reporting on
the intern’s charges of sexual harassment against Swatanter Kumar.
Sexual harassment charges levelled against sitting Delhi High Court
judges (V K Jain and Suresh Kait) and recently retired Delhi High
Court Judge (M L Mehta) were covered up without a proper enquiry and
after pressurizing the complainants to withdraw their complaints.
DHCBA chairman A S Chandhiok played a role in this cover-up.
I am shocked that a man of Swatanter Kumar’s proclivity was not only
appointed as a judge but went on to act as Chief Justice of the Bombay
High Court, a judge of the Supreme Court and is now heading the
National Green Tribunal. Lawyers like Harish Salve (who was Soli J
Sorabjee’s junior) use and exploit this weakness of Swatanter Kumar to
obtain favourable court orders. I am concerned that Harish Salve’s
involvement in the matter involving the complaint against Swatanter
Kumar is intended to cover up this complaint and to protect Swatanter
Kumar.
Seema Sapra
Advocate
seema.sapra@gmail.com
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