The Rajya Sabha Chairman has appointed Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi as head of the panel, probing sexual harassment charge against a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge, following the retirement of presiding officer Justice Vikramjit Sen from the Apex Court.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had recently expressed the view that despite his retirement from the Apex Court on December 31 last, Justice Sen could continue to head the panel as the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968, is silent on whether a judge can head the committee despite his retirement from the court. He had left it to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari to take a call on whether he wants Justice Sen to continue or replace him with a sitting judge.