Conspiracy To Frame CJI - The 'Ifs And Buts' In Lawyer Utsav Bains' Story
Live Law"If the allegations are proved, this won't be a defence", Justice Arun Mishra had stated on April 25. Bains also mentions that a corporate figure, who had unsuccessfully tried to approach an apex court judge to procure a favourable order in a high-profile case and then also failed in having the matter transferred from the court of said judge, had "ganged up" with Sharma to frame the CJI in a false case of sexual harassment to compel him to resign, post which the other judge on account of whose judgment the corporate figure incurred huge losses would be targeted. He has advanced that in addition to the links between Goyal, Ibrahim, Sharma and the said corporate figure, some "disgruntled employees" and "former employees" of the Supreme Court have also joined forces in the conspiracy. In court, AG K. K. Venugopal had drawn the bench's attention to certain portions of Bains's affidavit to show what he described as a "significant departure". While in his Facebook post on April 20 at 6.50 PM, he said that he will file an affidavit with evidence of "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", the AG indicated that Bains' affidavit filed in the court has no mention of the alleged lobby of disgruntled judges and corrupt politicians.