New Delhi: Supreme Court lawyer Utsav Bains Monday denied senior advocate Prashant Bhushan’s claims that he met CJI Ranjan Gogoi twice before he filed his affidavit in SC in which he had alleged a larger conspiracy to frame Gogoi in a sexual harassment case. Bains said Bhushan was playing “cheaply” to “discredit” him.
Bhushan has made the claims in an interview to online news portal The Wire.
“This story is imagination of PB sir, I never told him I met CJI, I told him it’s a conspiracy. Pls ask him to prove that I told him that I met CJI,” wrote Bains in a Facebook post.
“He says he recorded my conversation why didn’t he record this call when I told him it’s a conspiracy – the first call. I reposed faith and trust in him thinking he’ll stand for truth. When he told me not to be in contact I told him he’s a suspicious person and the relationship has become toxic due to his suspicion and I don’t wish to be in touch either (sic),” Bains wrote.
‘Got backstabbed’
Bhushan told The Wire that Bains had called him on 20 April, soon after the sexual harassment allegations against the CJI became public and before Bains published his accusations on Facebook, to say that “he had met the CJI the previous night (April 19, 2019)” and that Justice Gogoi could still be “saved”.
Bhushan said he had known Bains for the last few years as someone who was interested in working with him on human rights cases.
“I respect him, but we can agree to disagree with grace but he’s playing so cheaply to discredit me. This is unfortunate and unbecoming of a man I reposed faith in,” Bains wrote in his Facebook post.
“… I have beaten up people who have abused him, donated 90 per cent of my earnings of a month to crowd fund his 25 lakh fine and lived in difficulty as a struggling lawyer, even prepared myself to commit contempt if he’s sent to jail for contempt and all I got was backstabbed because we didn’t agree with each other.”
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‘My life under danger’
Clarifying the controversy surrounding the Jaguar car in which he entered the Supreme Court premises on 22 April, Bains said, “A night before I was informed that my life was under immense danger because of the people I had named, around 3 am I walked a km from a friend’s place, took an auto, checked into a hotel, prepared the affidavit, took a Jaguar taxi, informed the SC registry that my life is under danger and that I be given protection of being a witness under the SC directions on Witness Program, a case I had argued in SC, and I be allowed to get my vehicle inside and then I was allowed.”
He also mentioned that the “hotel CCTV will show him coming in an auto around 3 am and leaving in a Jaguar taxi in morning to SC”.
Bhushan in his interview said that a senior advocate, Nina Gupta Bhasin, told him that she saw Bains outside gate E of the SC on the afternoon of 22 April. “She told me that while she was waiting for a car to pick her up, a Jaguar taxi had blocked all other cars. The taxi was stuck there as the security personnel did not allow it entry into the court premises as the car did not have an SC sticker,” he said.
Bhushan told The Wire that when Nina enquired with the security guards, she saw Bains come out of the taxi. “She heard him tell the guards that he was Utsav Bains and that he was called by the CJI.”
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May I ask Bains just one question? Why his FB post and 2 affidavits tell different things ? This was also pointed out by AG Venugopal.
ACTUALLY THE MANAGEMENT OF THE WIRE, THE PRINT, PARSHANT BHUSHAN, KAPIL SIBBAL, MANU SINGHVI, SHEKHAR GUPTA, AHMED PATEL, INDERA JAI SINGH etx. ALL ARE CONSCPIRATORS IN THIS ENTIRE EPISODE OF FRAMING CJI.THESE GANG OF FIXERS HAS NO VALUES, NO ETHICS, NO ATTACHMENT TO THEIR PROFESSION, NATION OR PEOPLE.THESE ARE ALL FOREIGN (China + Pakistan) PIMPS THROUGH CONGRESS PARTY.
It becomes glaring with every such attack on the highest court of India. Justice Sabharwal, CJI Deepak Mishra, now CJI Gogoi. Obvious that a group is active who wants to control Supreme Court judges and judgements.
Media has a major role in creating this Chaos and must introspection. Every day media wallows deeper in dirt.
It is their baby, they must control it.
At last culprit comes to light one day. Shanti Bhushan played dirty tricks to malign former CJI, Sabareal. The son Prashsny too is in the same game in the garb of PIL. When he finds inability to achieve success in his designed games, he reports acts to make the concerned CJ to fall in line. His barbs against former CJI, Dipak Mishra and now present CJI,are eye opening examples. But this time this brigade (gang) will certainly be exposed for their conspiracy.
Lawyers or Liars ? Judiciary is somehow infected – though not seen in the open- by political leanings, I think. Better we pass a Law banning political student associations in Law Colleges n universities and that practising Lawyers with political links (whether with ruling party or opposition) will not be considered for appointment as Public Prosecutors, Magistrates n Judges. This will help in dealing with political thugs n looters sternly, severely & quickly as well.
EVEN AFTER MEDIA GIVING MINUTE DETAILS IN SUCH CASES PARTICULARLY HAVING INTEREST BY CONGRESS PARTY, AS TO HOW CJI COULDN’T PREVENT FUDGED SC ORDER, UNLESS CLANDESTINELY SOMEONE FROM JUDICIARY WAS INVOLVED IN IT’S ISSUES.
WHEN GOGOI CAN CONSPIRE AGAINST DEEPAK MISHRA JI FOR DEFAMATION AND OBTAIN PERSONAL GAINS TO BECOME CJI, ARRANGE PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOUR JUDGES TO GIVE STATEMENTS DILUTING CREDIABILITY OF JUDICIARIES & BE BAISED IN FAVOR OF CONGIS; ANYTHING SHOULD BE POSSIBLE. LET HIM GET HANGED FOR HIS MISDEEDS.
Disclosing legal consultancy in public amounts to professional misconduct. How many more professional misconduct on your part Mr. Bhushan?
How insensitively a serious case is being dealt with in social media. Do India deal similar cases similarly?
Citing SC order non believing women were smuggled inside sabarimala not even bothering the sentiments of crores of Hindus . After this incident gutter pig ranjan gogoi gives security at tax payers money for those who had desecrated temple tradition .
If this animal ranjan gogoi is a decent person let him order to provide the security to that molested woman first until probe is completed by an impartial senior judges panel majority being women judges .
Hope filthy uncultured uneducated arrogant animal ranjan gogoi fulfills this need and allows an impartial probe
Why did he open court room on a holiday and take up his own case
This anti Hindu animal deliberately allowed filthy animal Pinayari to tamper with the tradition as guided by Vatican pedophile Popes and bishops
After giving an order goes into vacation whereas opens court rooms on a Saturday which is a declared holiday
Ultimately if he has any shame he will resign .
We will definitely get better individuals as judges among 130 crore indians
People has seen statement of Sh Bhushan published by Wire and now by the Print. No body is going to believe these media portals and Bhushan as their credibility stand today? They may try these tactics to as done in the past to pressurise judges?