'Permit me to die': UP woman judge to CJI

SHE QUESTIONED THE ONGOING PROBE SINCE THE WITNESSES WERE SUBORDINATES OF THE JUDGE SHE HAS ACCUSED

- Utkarsh Anand

{ SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE } DISTRESS LETTER

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Thursday sought a status report from the Allahabad High Court administration on the status of an inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment raised by a woman civil judge in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district against a district judge of the state judiciary and his associates.

The development comes on a day when the woman judge’s letter to the CJI went viral on social media. In the two-page letter, the woman judge asked for the CJI’s permission to end her life following the abuse and harassment she had endured in her career during her posting in Barabanki, including unsettling incidents with the district judge there.

“I have no will to live anymore. I have been rendered to a Walking Corpse in the last year and a half. There is no purpose in carrying this soulless and lifeless body around anymore. There is no purpose left in my life. Kindly permit me to end my life in a dignified way,” said the letter that became public on Thursday.