A woman civil judge has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud alleging physical and mental abuse.
He has also sought permission to end his life. As soon as this letter of the woman judge went viral, the Supreme Court swung into action. The Supreme Court of the country has sought a report on this entire episode from Allahabad High Court.
Let us tell you that Banda Civil Judge Arpita Sahu has written a letter to the CJI. During this, he talked about the incidents that happened during his appointment in Barabanki Court.
During a report by New Indian Express, in a two-page letter, he has mentioned the unreasonable demands made by the District Judge and then the harassment.
She says that despite complaining several times, she has been forced to write this letter.
According to the report, he wrote in the letter, ‘During my short tenure I have had the rare honor of being harassed. I have suffered a lot of sexual harassment. I was treated like garbage. I felt as if I was an insect. I hoped to bring justice to others. I too was so innocent!’
She further wrote, ‘I want to tell women working in India to learn to live with sexual harassment. This is the truth of our life. POSH ACT is a big lie told to us. No one listens to us, no one cares.
According to the report, she also said in the letter, ‘How will I provide justice to others, when I myself have no hope. I thought that the Supreme Court would listen to my prayer, but the writ petition was dismissed within 8 seconds without listening to or considering my prayer. I feel that my life, my honor and even my soul have been rejected. It looks like a personal insult.
He wrote, ‘I have no desire to live any more. In the last one and a half years, I have been turned into a walking corpse. There is no point in roaming around without a soul and a lifeless body.
While posted in Barabanki in the year 2022, Judge Sahu had also filed a complaint against two lawyers named Ritesh Mishra and Mohan Singh. His allegations were that the lawyers had used abusive language. In July itself, Allahabad High Court had ordered to scrutinize CCTV footage to investigate this matter.