Governor Narayan accepts AK Ganguly’s resignation
8 Jan 2014 12:32 AM GMT
‘The governor has accepted the resignation and has informed the state government about it,’ said sources. Ganguly had met the governor on Monday at Raj Bhavan after which the judge refused to comment on the matter.
Meanwhile, Ganguly has said in his resignation, ‘I would like to affirmatively say that allegations which are appearing against me in the media both electronic and print are unfounded and baseless and I deny the same,’ justice Ganguly said in his resignation letter to governor MK Narayanan in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against him by a law intern.
‘The purported recommendation to the Hon’ble President for my removal, are based on grounds, which, in my opinion, are untenable and misconceived,’ Ganguly said in the letter, which he read out to a news agency over phone. ‘However, to obviate any further controversy and to ensure peace and happiness of the members of my family and having regard to the fact that I headed the high office of a judge and presently holding the post of chairman of WBHRC and being humbly of the view that I have lived up to the expectation of both, I have decided to resign from the post of chairman of the commission with immediate effect,’ he said in his letter dated 6 January.
Stepping down hurts Somnath Chatterjee
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday said that Justice AK Ganguly, accused of sexually harassing a law intern, had to resign as chief of the WBHRC ‘without proof or investigation’. ‘He had to resign without any proof or investigation in the case,’ Chatterjee said, adding that he was hurt by the developments leading to Justice Ganguly stepping down from the post of chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission.Chatterjee said ‘In our legal system till the time a person is proved to be guilty he is held innocent, but in this case he was not given proper hearing.
Meanwhile, Ganguly has said in his resignation, ‘I would like to affirmatively say that allegations which are appearing against me in the media both electronic and print are unfounded and baseless and I deny the same,’ justice Ganguly said in his resignation letter to governor MK Narayanan in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against him by a law intern.
‘The purported recommendation to the Hon’ble President for my removal, are based on grounds, which, in my opinion, are untenable and misconceived,’ Ganguly said in the letter, which he read out to a news agency over phone. ‘However, to obviate any further controversy and to ensure peace and happiness of the members of my family and having regard to the fact that I headed the high office of a judge and presently holding the post of chairman of WBHRC and being humbly of the view that I have lived up to the expectation of both, I have decided to resign from the post of chairman of the commission with immediate effect,’ he said in his letter dated 6 January.
Stepping down hurts Somnath Chatterjee
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday said that Justice AK Ganguly, accused of sexually harassing a law intern, had to resign as chief of the WBHRC ‘without proof or investigation’. ‘He had to resign without any proof or investigation in the case,’ Chatterjee said, adding that he was hurt by the developments leading to Justice Ganguly stepping down from the post of chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission.Chatterjee said ‘In our legal system till the time a person is proved to be guilty he is held innocent, but in this case he was not given proper hearing.
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