Justice Patnaik seeks information on CJI case

New Delhi, June 04: Former Supreme Court judge AK Patnaik said he has called for some more information from the intelligence agencies - CBI, IB - and Delhi Police to find truth behind the allegations of "larger conspiracy" to frame the Chief JusticeChief JusticeChief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

Justice Patnaik was appointed by the Supreme Court to hold an inquiry into the sensational allegations including the fixing of benches after a lawyer claimed that a larger conspiracy was at work in the Supreme Court.

Utsav Singh Bains had made the allegations when the Supreme Court was hearing the sexual harassment charges against the CJI in which the three-member in-house inquiry committee did not find any substance.