Sunday, 10 March 2019

Grave and Immediate threat to life of Seema Sapra, General Electric Company whistle-blower and sexual harassment complainant against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee who is being poisoned #MeToo #MeTooIndia #GE $GE




Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>
Grave and Immediate threat to life of Seema Sapra, General Electric Company whistle-blower and sexual harassment complainant against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee who is being poisoned #MeToo #MeTooIndia #GE $GE
Seema Sapra <seema.sapra@googlemail.com>Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:42 PM
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So the update is this. Despite being made aware of the Supreme Court order dated 1 March 2019, the DCP for New Delhi Madhur Verma has still not contacted me even after my several messages to him. I again ask Madhur Verma to register an FIR as directed by the Supreme Court. 

My repeated calls and text messages to DCP Madhur Verma have also gone unanswered. My requests at his office for a meeting have gone unanswered. It is clear that DCP Madhur Verma is avoiding meeting me and has no intention to register my FIR. Instead of wasting further time on trying to meet him, I will now make appropriate submissions before the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile I have continued to be poisoned by the deliberate introduction of poisonous chemical fumes/ gases and pesticides into the guesthouse room I am staying in today as well as last night. This is being done with the involvement of the Police. 

Last night I was again repeatedly poisoned with toxic chemical fumes/ gases deliberately outside gate 8 of the Delhi High Court.  I was also targeted by men in several cars who were used to circle around me.

My tweets last night
DL3CCE6755 1.15AM
Ongoing attempt to murder #GE $GE whistle-blower & #MeToo #MeTooIndia survivor Seema Sapra at Delhi High Court gate 8 @realDonaldTrump @StateDept @FBI @TheJusticeDept @CPDelhi @DelhiPolice @HMOIndia @IPSMadhurVerma @WhiteHouse @gurgaonpolice @PMOIndia @POTUS

This car went inside the Delhi High Court. It was used in an attempt to run over me and the driver was used to poison me.

Seema Sapra
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@SeemaSapraLaw
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11.37pm two men outside Delhi High Court gate 9 are targeting me. Seema Sapra

DL2CAK5078 0.42am Ongoing attempt to murder #GE $GE whistle-blower & #MeToo #MeTooIndia survivor Seema Sapra at Delhi High Court gate 8 @realDonaldTrump @StateDept @FBI @TheJusticeDept @CPDelhi @DelhiPolice @HMOIndia @IPSMadhurVerma @WhiteHouse @gurgaonpolice @PMOIndia @POTUS

Two men on a motorbike and men in an auto-rickshaw were also used to target me last night outside Delhi High Court.

A man driving a taxi was also used in attempts to run over me and poison me outside Delhi High Court last night.

Around 3 am, a man targeting me appeared behind C1/49 Bapa Nagar.

Pictures and sms messages sent last night to DCP Madhur Verma and Tilak Marg SHO Devender Kumar are attached.

The cook of lawyer D K Rastogi has been involved in targeting me outside Delhi High Court at night.

Also please see these Youtube videos of some persons living in Bapa Nagar servant quarters who are being used to target me. They appear to live in the SQ of the house behind C1/49. They have been used to poison me, abuse me (calling me Randi, pagal, mentally ill etc), tamper with my car, throw stones at me and at the dogs I feed, threaten to kill these dogs, harass me. threaten to have me "picked up" etc.  They were present when I was beaten up by two policemen on the intervening night of 28 February and 1 March. They knew that a lawyer had a few weeks ago thrown my phone down and destroyed it, They were mocking me for it that night. They said on audio that they know everything about me. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPt4xsIxYL8&t=53s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbZUQnocsWU&t=4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du4c-gW3DFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwyvLO50uI8&t=4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxlucbXgAlM&t=12s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4TidTW5GdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn3OG_dn_Q&t=26s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeASeu4GLh0


My Uber bookings are also being obstructed.

I am very afraid that policemen of Tilak Marg police station and particularly the two who beat me up and the other persons being used to target me will harm me. My life is in even greater danger now. 

My life is in grave and immediate danger.

Persons involved in targeting me and in having me poisoned include: Prat Kumar (Boeing, ex-GE), Deepak Adlakha (ex-GE), Ash Nainar (GE), Raian Karanjawala, Arun Jaitley, Soli Sorabjee, lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher including John Chesley and F Joseph Warin, Alex Dimitrief (GE), Montek Singh Ahluwalia, John Flannery (ex-GE), Jeffrey Eglash (ex-GE), John Flannery (ex-GE), Scott Bayman (ex-GE), Mukul Rohatgi, Rajiv Nayar, Zia Mody, Nanju Ganpathy, Ripu Adlakha, lawyers like Kirti Uppal, Ajit Doval whose son has close ties to GE, etc.

So on 1 March, I mentioned the brutal beating that I was subjected to by two policemen (while two other policemen and an assembled gang being used to target me watched) outside Delhi High Court in the early hours of the night of 1 March before the Bench of Justice Bobde and Justice Deepak Gupta.

The Court passed the following order: 

1 ITEM NO.801 COURT NO.3 SECTION II-C
 S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Writ Petition (Civil) No.13/2018
SEEMA SAPRA Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Respondent(s)
WITH W.P.(C) No.1027/2018 (X)
Date : 01-03-2019
These matters were mentioned today.
CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.A. BOBDE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA
For Appellant(s) Ms. Seema Sapra, Petitioner-in-person For Respondent(s)
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R
Ms. Seema Sapra, Advocate, who is appearing as the petitioner-in-person in these writ petitions, has mentioned before this Court today that she has been assaulted by some policemen outside the High Court of Delhi last night. It would be appropriate if Ms. Sapra, petitioner-inperson, files an First Information Report (FIR) to that effect in the Office of appropriate Deputy Commissioner of Police who is in-charge of the Tilak Marg Police Station, New Delhi. She may also seek police protection since she apprehends danger to her life. As prayed for, liberty is also granted to Ms. Sapra, petitioner-in-person, to file interlocutory application for directions in the main writ petitions.
(SANJAY KUMAR-II) (INDU KUMARI POKHRIYAL) COURT MASTER (SH) ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

The concerned DCP indicated in the order is Madhur Verma who is the DCP for New Delhi District under which Tilak Marg Police station falls. He is copied on this email. 

The legal news website LiveLaw has published a report on the court mentioning by me on 1 March which is reasonably accurate and is reproduced below. https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/lady-lawyers-plea-alleging-sexual-harassment--143254

Lady Lawyer's Plea Alleging Police Harassment: SC Directs Police To Look Into The Matter BY: LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK1 March 2019 12:35 PM
In a packed courtroom on Friday, a lady advocate narrated an unfortunate episode of her having been manhandled by two policemen outside the Delhi High Court in the wee hours of the morning.
"They hit me...I fell down but they kept beating me...they snatched my phone...I was crying and they left me there...I could not even book a cab...somehow I got to gate 4 where they helped get an auto...", she almost broke down before the bench headed by Justice S. A. Bobde.
She contended that the assault was in the wake of her 2018 petition alleging sexual harassment against two veteran lawyers, my petition against them is listed now on March 25 after over a year? And I am being physically assaulted?! This has crossed all limits! And this is not the first instance where I have been targeted! Lot of events have happened!"
"I was called to the Tilak Marg police station to pick up my phone. But when I went this morning at 8, it was completely broken! One of the policemen from last night is is definitely from this police station because I saw him there...I had clicked   pictures of them last night but now my phone has been destroyed!", she urged passionately.
"I have sent an email complaint to the Secretary General of this court and the police commissioner. I intend to move an application for interim protection describing what has happened and providing evidence. Even if my phone was destroyed, I had turned on the audio recording last night. The Entire assault is on audio tape- me crying, their slaps! The entire episode would also have been captured on the CCTV cameras there!"
When the bench requested Senior Advocate Indira Jaising (who was present in court) to extend legal assistance and offered to bring the police to the lady advocate's aid, she vehemently refused- "I don't want legal assistance! I don't want any other lady lawyer's help! No lawyer has come to my aid for 9-10 years! I can fight my own battle!"
She also refused to approach the police- "I just need some protection! What will I do with the police? My complaint is with them! Let them handle it!"
 "We will do the right thing. You cannot dictate our order. This is not a police station where you can come and complain...we are telling you what to do now! You can't tell us! You have already taken up 15 minutes of our time!", observed Justice Bobde sternly.
 "So I shouldn't have mentioned? A lady advocate is sexually harassed and thrashed and that is worth less than 15 minutes of the court's time? I am wasting your time?", she argued.
 "Don't put words in our mouth! We are saying don't waste our time now that we are passing the order... We can't hear you any more...", stated Justice Bobde.
Procuring Ms. Jaising's assistance as an advocate of the court, the judge inquired about the correct course of action.
Ms. Jaising submitted that first of all, a proper FIR be registered. If there is no action on it, then a   petition could lie for a mandamus to the police to investigate- "the jurisdiction is with the Tilak Marg Police station. But a zero FIR can be recorded elsewhere if there is apprehension of bias
The bench directed the concerned ACP to look into the matter, requiring the woman advocate to file a FIR and to seek protection when she apprehends danger. However, the bench declined to list her petition next week.

https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/lady-lawyers-plea-alleging-sexual-harassment--143254

The policemen also snatched my phone during the assault to destroy evidence and they have returned my phone the next day in a broken condition. I still have audio recordings as my dictaphone was on. 

Plus the incident happened outside Delhi High Court so there should be CCTV records.

I have also received notices from the Supreme Court Registry that Writ Petition Civil 13/2018 (seeking protection) and Writ Petition Civil 1027/2018 (sexual harassment petition and seeking Z+ security) will also be listed for hearing before the Supreme Court on 25 March 2019 when my Criminal Appeal Diary No. 10342/2016 is listed. 
I request the Registrar General of the Delhi High Court, the Police Commissioner and DCP Madhur Verma to ensure that no CCTV records from the Delhi High Court gates and borders including along the roads outside the Delhi High Court are deleted or destroyed.  

I continue to be repeatedly poisoned in the New Delhi guesthouse where I am staying. I am being poisoned here with poisonous chemical fumes, nerve agents and anesthetic gases. Some kind of poisonous chemical fumes and pesticides are being intermittently released into my room. Staff is involved and this is deliberate.


Criminal Appeal Diary No. 10342/2016 is listed in the Supreme Court on 25 March.


My case Writ Petition Criminal 437 of 2018 was listed before Judge Mukta Gupta in the Delhi High Court on 22 January.  The order passed on 22 January is reproduced below. 
" IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
+ W.P.(CRL) 437/2018
SEEMA SAPRA .. Petitioner
Represented by: Petitioner in person
versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS ... Respondents
Represented by: Mr.Rahul Mehra, Standing Counsel
for the State with Mr.Jamal Akhtar,
Advocate and SI Manjeet, PS Special
Cell
Mr.Arun Bhardwaj with Mr.Shashwat
Sharma, Advocate for respondent
No.1 & 2 (UOI)
Ms.Shruttima Ehersa, Advocate for
respondent No.5
CORAM:
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MUKTA GUPTA
O R D E R
% 22.01.2019
Learned counsel for respondent No.5 states that Mr.Yashwant Rai
Grover is the constituted attorney of respondent No.5 and copy of the
authorization in favour of Mr.Yashwant Rai Grover will be filed within two
days. The same be filed within two days with advance copy to the
petitioner.
On the last date of hearing, this Court had directed respondent No.5 to
provide basic subscriber details including the IP address registration
details of gmail account seemasapraalert@gmail.com to the DCP Cyber
Cell (Crime), Delhi Police. Learned counsel for respondent No.5 states that
the basic subscriber information was e-mailed. On checking the e-mail it is
found that the said e-mail has been sent to the SHO, PS Saket and not to the
DCP Cyber Cell (Crime Branch) and that too on 19th January, 2019. A copy
of the same has been filed in sealed cover before this Court which has been
opened and perused.
Respondent No.5 will send the necessary details as required vide
order dated November, 01, 2018 to the DCP Cyber Cell (Crime Branch)
within a week on the Standing counsel of the Government of NCT Delhi
providing the e-mail address of the DCP Cyber Cell (Crime) to the learned
counsel for respondent No.5 today itself.
On the necessary details being provided by the respondent No.5, DCP
Cyber Cell (Crime) will further investigate in the matter and file a status
report before the next date.
Renotify on 20th March, 2019.
MUKTA GUPTA, J.
JANUARY 22, 2019" 


Last year a 26 year old woman lawyer was apparently murdered in Bangalore just 4 days after registering an FIR with the Police stating that two male lawyers had been sexually harassing her.

It is quite telling that apart from a tweet from Indira Jaising no other famous Indian lawyer has spoken up in protest against this murder of Pushpa Archana Lall. 
Now despite the fact that Writ Petition Civil No. 1027/2018 is pending before the Supreme Court with my complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault by Soli Sorabjee and of sexual harassment by Raian Karanjawala, and despite the well-known fact that Sorabjee is a serial sexual predator, he is participating in the Supreme Court Committee deliberations for designation of new Senior Advocates where he is hobnobbing with Judges. Why are the Supreme Court Judges giving Sorabjee this pass. How will other complainants or witnesses against Soli Sorabjee speak up when he is still seen as exercising this kind of influence over the careers of so many lawyers.

In 2011 around July/August, lawyer Manish Singhvi who was my colleague when I was working with Soli Sorabjee in 2001, told me in the Supreme Court corridor that "you could have become a senior advocate". This statement was made after my sexual harassment complaint against Sorabjee and my GE corruption complaints had been published by me. What was Manish Singhvi trying to tell me and at whose behest.

Copies of relevant court proceedings are attached.

Why are Supreme Court Judges and Supreme Court lawyers turning a blind eye to Soli Sorabjee's sexual predatory past? 
J. Indu Malhotra who is now a Supreme Court Judge having been directly elevated from the Bar could not be unaware of Soli Sorabjee’s public reputation as a sexual predator. J. Indu Malhotra is now chairing the Supreme Court Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaint Committee and she gave a speech at an event of this Committee on International Women’s day. The fact remains that as a lawyer in 2014, J. Indu Malhotra was part of the Supreme Court Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaint Committee when my complaint against Sorabjee and Karanjawala was sent to it. I have described how the complaint was dealt with by this Committee in my Writ Petition 1027/2018. The way the Committee dealt with my complaint and refused to consider it without even speaking to me is problematic, unlawful, and also against basic principles of natural justice. The response I received allegedly on behalf of this Committee (extracted below) was even incorrect factually and wrongly stated that I had “actually forwarded copy of a writ petition pending before the Delhi High Court”.
I am to inform you that your complaint was put before the Gender Sensitization Internal Complaint Committee of Supreme Court on 17thApril, 2014 and their the Chairperson Hon'ble Mrs. Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and the Member Hon'ble Mr. Justice Madan B. Lokur, in consultation with other Members present, have observed that your complaint has actually forwarded copy of a writ petition pending before the Delhi High Court. The GSICC has, therefore, decided that since a competent court is already seized of the matter, it should not interfere with the said proceedings. Thus it was decided that it is not necessary to take cognizance of the said complaint. The GSICC, therefore, decided to file the said complaint.

Accordingly, you are being informed.

J. Indu Malhotra was part of this Committee in 2014 and was party to this unlawful response to my complaint. So was J. Nageshwar Rao who has also been elevated to the Supreme Court Bench from the Bar and who was also a lawyer member of this Committee in 2014. J. Nageshwar Rao has subsequently recused from my cases in the Supreme Court.
J. Indu Malhotra’s stance on sexual harassment is troubling. In a contribution to a handbook on sexual harassment issued by the Supreme Court of India she wrote: “… it is also advisable that the workplaces offer counselling to the complainant, and the alleged perpetrator, to prevent escalation of disputes”. This statement of J. Indu Malhotra is problematic because of her focus on preventing escalation of disputes rather than redressing a woman’s complaint of sexual harassment. This euphemism of preventing escalation of disputes is often used to pressure, coerce or “counsel” the woman to settle or compromise her complaint in order to let off and protect the perpetrator.

In her recent speech, J. Indu Malhotra has stated the following about her experience on the Supreme Court’s sexual harassment committee.
I have been a member of the GSICC since its inception. The GSICC has resolved complaints of sexual harassment filed before it.
In fact, just a couple of years ago, we had a case where a male lawyer threatened a woman member of the SCBA to give into his demands otherwise he would carry out an acid attack against her. As a member of the GSICC, we assisted the woman in obtaining police protection, helped her in filing a criminal complaint against the offender, and put up this information on the Supreme Court website.
There have been several other instances where women lawyers have received lewd messages, and overtures from male colleagues, being stalked in the Supreme Court premises, and outside.
At the same time, I would like to sound a note of caution. Apart from genuine complaints, we find that there are instances of complaints of sexual harassment being filed, even though the alleged victim and the offender may have been in a consensual relationship for some time. When the relationship turns sour, a complainant of sexual harassment is made. It is important that making of such complaints are avoided, so that the system does not lose its credibility.
A provision has been incorporated in the 2013 Act to provide for punishment for false or malicious complaints under the Central Act.
We have recently undertaken the exercise of updating the GSICC Regulations in 2019 to bring them in sync with the statute, and adapt it to the courts.
The Regulations have been placed for approval by the Chief Justice of India, after which we will take steps for having them notified, and uploaded on the Supreme Court website.
I would like to acknowledge my gratitude on behalf of the GSICC, to Mr. R. Venkatramani, Senior Advocate, Ms. Nisha Bachi, Senior Member of the Bar, and Mr. Santosh Krishnan, Advocate who have helped in the formulation of the amended regulations.

My questions are - why are the proceedings of the Supreme Court under The Gender Sensitisation & Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal), Regulations, 2013 secret? Where is the information about complaints received by this Committee and its response to those complaints published? What are these instances of complaints of sexual harassment being filed, even though the alleged victim and the offender may have been in a consensual relationship for some time? Why is J. Indu Malhotra so focused on highlighting alleged false sexual harassment complaints instead of on providing redress to victims? Is she helping build a narrative of false complaints? Is it helpful to threaten victims with punishment if they are unable to “prove” their complaints? Will such threats of punishment act as a deterrent to sexual harassment victims from making complaints as they will be fearful of not being able to “prove” their complaints (as sexual offences often take place in private and are dependent upon oral testimony)? And very pertinently, given that a sexual harassment and sexual assault case against Soli Sorabjee is pending unheard since 2013 and which J. Indu Malhotra is aware of, why is Soli Sorabjee’s former junior, close friend and associate Nisha Bagchi who has been used to target me part of this ongoing endeavor with J. Indu Malhotra of updating the GSICC Regulations in 2019 to “bring them in sync with the statute, and adapt it to the courts”. Ms Nisha Bagchi has been called a “girlfriend” of Mr Soli Sorabjee. She has been an enabler of his sexual predation of young women lawyers. And finally, why has this exercise of revising the regulations not been publicized and why has it been carried out in secret without broader consultation?
J. Indu Malhotra has been a close friend of Mr Arun Jaitley. Her nephew Vikas Mehta used to work in Mr Jaitley’s chambers. She is also on friendly terms with Raian Karanjawala, Mukul Rohatgi, Soli Sorabjee, Zia Mody, etc.
J. Indu Malhotra was representing the accused/ KPMG in the Mumbai KPMG sexual harassment case and had been engaged by AZB & partners, a firm headed by Soli Sorabjee’s daughter Zia Mody. The way this case was handled by AZB is extremely troubling and the misuse of due process and of the courts and of government agencies to protect the accused in this case and to destroy the victim has been documented in detail in two news stories at https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/evidence-withheld-for-5-years-in-mumbai-sexual-harassment-trial/article4692717.ece and at https://www.livemint.com/Politics/v8RrlLY5QvAj4JtgRsMhRK/What-happens-when-women-complain-of-sexual-harassment.html
A shocking account of how the legal process was misused, subverted and sabotaged in the KPMG sexual harassment case to prevent an inquiry on merits into the sexual harassment complaint is narrated by the complainant's son in a blog titled "The #Metoo vs Due Process :  My story and my life as the child of the woman fighting a sexual harassment case for 11 years" at https://travestyjustice.blogspot.com/The complaint of this lady has never been heard/ investigated on merits.

In light of the conduct of J. Indu Malhotra in the KPMG sexual harassment case, it is quite strange that she now heads the Supreme Court sexual harassment committee and that while arguing the KPMG case all throughout, she was part of the Supreme Court sexual harassment Committee.
J. Indu Malhotra was part of this targeting and silencing of the victim in the KPMG case and in 2014 when my complaint went before the Supreme Court sexual harassment committee of which she was a part, she was engaged by Zia Mody (Sorabjee’s daughter) in this case. J. Indu Malhotra ought to have recused from the Committee when my complaint was before them. There is no indication that she did so.
J. Indu Malhotra knows me personally since around 1995 when I joined the Bar. In 2011, I had attempted to speak to her and she literally ran off in the Supreme Court corridor. Last year, I saw her in the Supreme Court Ladies Bar room and she again avoided speaking to me and was very rude and hostile when I addressed her. Despite being on the Supreme Court’s sexual harassment committee for several years and despite being aware of my sexual harassment complaint against Soli Sorabjee and Raian Karanjawala, J. Indu Malhotra (as a lawyer) never once offered me any kind of support (even verbal). This is despite her knowing about the harrowing targeting and victimization I was subjected to and despite her knowing about Soli Sorabjee’s reputation as a sex predator and despite her knowing me personally.
I will therefore object to any involvement of J. Indu Malhotra with the hearing of my cases before the Supreme Court.

Now let me expose both Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee, both of who are involved in having me targeted and poisoned. As you are aware Writ Petition Civil No. 1027/2018 filed by me and pending hearing before the Supreme Court of India seeks FIRs and investigations into my sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints against Raian Karanjawala and Soli Sorabjee.

Pooja Shali the journalist who recently interviewed Soli Sorabjee about my complaint against him tweeted the following after the interview: "Many in legal fraternity have caste (sic) serious aspersions against Mr. Sorabjee but not willing to come out in open", I have a screenshot of this tweet dated 10 October 2018.

I have been told the following about Soli Sorabjee and Raian Karanjawala. 
That lawyer Tasneem Ahmadi's son is actually Soli Sorabjee's son.
That Soli Sorabjee had a sexual affair with another lawyer named Madhu.
That lawyer Nandini Gore's son is actually Raian Karanjawala's son. There is a strong physical resemblance between Raian Karanjawala and Rahul Gore.
That Raian Karanjawala has a "problem" when it comes to needing young women sexually.
That between 2004 and 2007, Raian Karanjawala recruited mostly young female associates some of whom he sexually exploited.
That lawyer Nisha Bagchi is Soli Sorabjee's girlfriend.
That several woman lawyers have used sexual intimacy with Soli Sorabjee to establish their professional careers implying that Soli Sorabjee used professional favors to sexually exploit women, some of whom went along with this.
That Soli Sorabjee's daughter Zia Mody verbally abused Sorabjee in front of another lawyer because of Soli Sorabjee's indiscreet and adulterous sexual liaisons with women. Told this by the lawyer who heard the abusive language used by Zia Mody against Soli Sorabjee. Zia Mody and Soli Sorabjee were estranged for some years. 

I was told by a young and pretty lawyer Mansi Gupta in Karanjawala & Co in 2010 that she was shifted against her wish from the Defence Colony office of the firm to the K G Marg office because she was seen as spending too much time with Raian Karanjawala.

Mansi Gupta also told me in 2010 when I worked at Karanjawala & Co for a month in 2010 that I was in real danger there.

I was told that there was a sex scandal concerning Raian Karanjawala and one of his associate junior lawyers named Niharika sometime before 2010.

Raian Karanjawala's secretary Anju died very suddenly of a very sudden illness in what appear to be very suspicious circumstances.

Raian Karanjawala told me sometime around 2003 that I would end up in a ditch. I was confused and hurt by this statement made by him when I told him about my PhD plans but I now realize he was threatening me.

I once heard Nandini Gore emerge after a long chat session in Raian Karanjawala's office and tell lawyer Anupam Lall Das that Raian had remarked the following about Anupam and his wife: Yeh toh bistar todte honge. This happened just around the time Anupam was getting married to his longtime girlfriend.

In 2001 when Soli Sorabjee was the Attorney General handling the Dabhol litigation in which GE (General Electric Company) was involved. and I was working with him, Soli Sorabjee used to visit a female lawyer working with GE and based in Bangalore several times a month. He told me he used to stay at her house and that he liked lying down with his head in her lap.

There was also a scandal regarding Soli Sorabjee and his female secretary when he was IIC Chairman. Her last name was Gosain.

I have also learnt from a lawyer that a long time ago (over 20 years ago), an incident concerning Soli Sorabjee took place in the Supreme Court.  A woman lawyer had publicly shouted at and accused Soli Sorabjee of sexually harassing her and taking undue liberties in his behavior with her. There must be several witnesses to this incident.

I am also reproducing below some more public statements relevant to my sexual harassment case.

Seema Mustafa writing on 10 October 2018 "I respect the woman who has filed a petition against Soli Sorabjee, I too was invited for Dhan Saag once but nothing happened!" see https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/7/15213/Whoa-MeToo-Hold-Your-Horses

A Reddit conversation at https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/9myxnk/imaginary_baseless_soli_sorabjee_rejects_metoo/ extracted below:

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At this age...

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I seek peace

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And cemetery

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For those who don't know Soli Sorabjee, rumor in the legal community is that he was a notorious philanderer and for this reason he is estranged from his daughter, noted corporate lawyer Zia Mody.

Zia is well known in corporate law circles to be a notorious control freak. Apparently this habit is a result of her blaming her mother for not keeping her father 'in check' and not keeping track of him. Her mother was apparently too busy socializing and didn't focus on her marriage much when Zia was young.

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Really? Him and his daughter were playing happy family in a recent interview with Rajdeep.

I believe the sexual allegations against him. It's more than just "philandering", it's out and out sexual assault and harassment.

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Really? Him and his daughter were playing happy family in a recent interview with Rajdeep.

Yes, which is why I said it's a rumor. Maintaining appearances is very important among lawyers.

The 'Philandering' just goes on to show how horny the guy is. He may be a legal genius, but he is a super horny legal genius.

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Yes, which is why I said it's a rumor. Maintaining appearances is very important among lawyers.

Applies to all human beings but certainly to Indians.

The 'Philandering' just goes on to show how horny the guy is. He may be a legal genius, but he is a super horny legal genius.

All men are horny. People don't expect old men to be horny but they are.

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How do you know he did it. No it's doesn't work that way.

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Sleeping around is NOT sexual harrasment.

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He can philander all he wants. It's the forcing himself on women that people have a problem with."

Tweets from October 2018 by legal journalist Apoorva Mandhani.

"@MandhaniApoorva
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Women recollecting their horrors over the past week has been triggering for me for more than one reason. Not only have I recounted my own experiences with several male lawyers over the years, but have also begun to realize how easily we accept these as a part of our lives. #MeToo

@MandhaniApoorva
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It also takes me back to this conversation that I had with a female law firm partner, who told me about a friend who was so traumatised by the harassment by a senior advocate that she gave up her career. The power dynamics in the industry are that skewed. #MeToo


@MandhaniApoorva
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Maybe this is why #MeToo has taken so long to reach the legal industry, because these are men who know how to get past the law. Hell, they do it for a living. I vouch for this because I've been grappling with the possibility of sharing an experience of my own.

@MandhaniApoorva
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This is against a lawyer who I know has done the same to several women. I haven't yet found the strength to voice myself on this. So I know how hard it must have been for women like @divya_krthk, @AnooBhu, @TheRestlessQuil, @AGirlOfHerWords & several others who have come forward.

@MandhaniApoorva
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I do hope to find that strength someday. However, I do know that #MeToo has been a revelation for me, as I have finally reached a point where I can reject the guilt and the shame of having gone through what I did, because I know that the shame is his." 

Journalist Swati Chaturvedi writing in October 2018: "Tejpal and Pachauri got exposed, but there are countless others in the media, movies and across all workplaces, who think preying on women is part of their privileges. Horror stories abound about particular politicians and lawyers, who use their position of authority to prey on virtually all the women they meet. I have heard horror stories from colleagues and have a few myself. Not only is #metoo much needed, it is cry of anguish, a catharsis for women who have faced this for so long." see https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/metoo-acknowledge-our-pain-or-is-it-too-much-to-ask-1.2287020

Tweet by Journalist Anoo Bhuyan:
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The Supreme Court of India is not a safe space for women.
I know because Ive been sexually harassed in the Supreme Court.

This young lawyer was harassed by court clerk of AOR Mansoor Ali.

@ Women in the court, what's your #MeToo? Would you DM me?
Pls RT"

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Account of friend of victim- Sexual harassment by a leading firm's sole partner with her own senior associate. The matter was settled at a meagre 5lacs. I wonder when victims will be able to speak up against the ultra powerful in the legal fraternity without fear"

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Great if that indeed happened but the clip you have posted have three men out of four guests! Also, will you do a detailed profile on the law firm hired by Akbar and the powerful people close to Raian? And why Raian in the first place?

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Not dictating ma’am. Was asking since you said other people were spreading canards while you people were busy doing meaningful stuff! Raian is an interesting profile to do btw. Ask Mehli Mistry about him!;) 

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Ever laywer I know has told me the biggest stories waiting to come forth are from the law and judiciary circles. Mukul Mudgal, former CJ of Punjab and Haryana HC, accused of sexual assault in the 90s. He denies it. Do read  #MetooIndia
#MeToo

Some more tweets talking about Soli Sorabjee's well known reputation as a sex predator. 
@NilimDutta
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Former SC Judge, AK Ganguli, accused of sexual harassment of intern need not resign as Chair, WBSHC: says Soli Sorabji

Why? Law not same?

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@NilimDutta Sad.Have heard from credible friends in legal profession,that Soli's conduct with women colleagues not above board

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There are many more skeletons in Supreme Court , A K Ganguly & Soli Sorabjee are just the beginning #Sexual #Harassment

4:43 AM - 16 Dec 2013

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@calmgalin What abou tSoli Sorabjee ?


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@WhirlingDervesh Yes, another case is going on in SC

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Soli Sorabjee stands by Justice Ganguly http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Justice-Ganguly-need-not-resign-on-the-basis-of-allegations-Soli-Sorabjee/articleshow/26711231.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=timesofindia …

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@timesofindia Birds of the same feathers?

Screenshots of all these tweets/ statements are available on my blog at https://seemasapra.blogspot.com/2018/01/fwd-new-writ-petition-on-sexual.html

Indira Jasing had tweeted the following on 12 October 2018: 
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It is not for me to say whether Soli Sorabjee is guilty of the sexual harassment alleged against him, but surely in all fairness ,the Supreme Court must consider removing him from the committee to recommend designation of Senior Counsel , this is what we demand of others

The day before yesterday, I was again forced to beg for money to live as I have been forced to beg every day since 2012. I am being insulted and humiliated deliberately by lawyers who I have to beg for crumbs to live on. I will be bringing this to the attention of the Supreme Court. The lawyers forcing me to beg for money should be ashamed of themselves.

Seema Sapra
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