Child rights activist and lawyer, Utsav Bains, in a Facebook post, has alleged that he was offered bribe to implicate the CJI in the ongoing ‘sexual harassment’ controversy. Utsav Bains in his post has clearly laid out the sequence of events which had taken place just a few days back. 4 Leftist Media outlets The Scroll, Leaflet, The Wire and The Caravan had published a report, in which an ex-staffer of the Supreme Court had alleged Sexual Harassment by the CJI.
In his post on Facebook Utsav said:
“I was offered bribe to help frame CJI in the sexual harassment case by lawyering and organising a Press Conference against the CJI for the Ex-SC staffer who has accused the CJI of sexual harassment just a few days back and also specifically asked to organise a press conference only at the Press Club of India.”
Utsav Bains also pointed out towards request made for organizing a press conference, which points towards a conspiracy to sensationalize the issue.
“When I refused the person who was initially praising my pro bono work in the Asaram Rape case for the victim etc and interestingly claimed to be her relative but on the other hand looked like a trained agent and he also couldn’t satisfactorily reply as to what was his relationship with the Ex SC Staffer and then suddenly offered me 50 lacs as my legal fees if I agreed to lawyer and again he asked me specifically to organise a press conference at the PCI after I refused as I found the story facts fishy and also he couldn’t reply to any question about the many loopholes in the story he narrated. When I again refused he said 1.5 Cr. I then asked him to leave my office.”
These comments by Utsav Bains, add to the remarks made by the CJI who has also alleged this to be a bigger conspiracy to sabotage the Judiciary. “They cannot catch me on money, so they have brought up this”, said CJI.
“After hours of ponder and soul searching, I have decided to speak the truth and file a detailed affidavit in this regard in the SC along with evidences of the conspiracy against the CJI by a lobby of disgruntled judges, SC fixers, corporate scamsters and a few corrupt Politicians – All who have meticulously planned the conspiracy to force the CJI to resign as their ‘Corrupt works were not going through in SC”.
Utsav Bains also added.
“I was stopped to go public by some senior well-wishers and told that lobby of judges who is planning this conspiracy will turn against me and harm me professionally. But my conscious doesn’t allow me to turn my face away and let history record today’s day as the darkest day in the history of SC.”
These series of events were preceded by various critical judgments, where politicians including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and others had faced flak by the Supreme Court over several issues. However, this brave act by Utsav Bains to come out, despite being advised to do otherwise over fear of lash back from “lobby of judges”, has surely given more winds to the allegations of a conspiracy to undermine the Judiciary in face of critical judgments.