51 Year old, Nisha Priya Bhatia an advocate and a former RAW woman officer Tuesday moved to the Delhi High Court against the appointment of Justice H.L. Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) alleging sexual harassment by him. The matter would come up for hearing Wednesday before a division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw.
Bhatia in the plea alleged that she was a law student in 2011 when Justice Dattu began hearing all her court cases in the Supreme Court, her work place. “He (Dattu) has since then contributed to her acute and intense sexual harassment even though – under the Vishakha guidelines of the apex court itself – he was obliged to protect her against it, even from the third party,” the plea said. The plea further said Justice Dattu dismissed all her cases and she had also filed complaints against him with police, the National Commission for Women and the Delhi Commission for Women
