New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered an administrative enquiry against two judicial officers for their alleged role in coercing a woman lawyer to retract allegations in a rape case she filed against another advocate.
The high court cancelled the pre-arrest bail of the 51-year-old accused lawyer, holding that one of the main tenets to cancel bail is interference with the process of law.
Justice Amit Mahajan, in an order uploaded late night, held that both the parties in the case have made “absolute mockery of justice.”
“The circumstances brought forth in the present proceedings are so overwhelming that they have shocked the conscience of this court. The same reflects that there is apparent interference with the administration of justice, which warrants interference with the liberty granted to respondent no 2 (accused),” the judge said.
The high court said it was appalled by the involvement of judicial officers in a case of such nature.
It observed that although the allegations were a matter of further investigation, they indicated a “flagrant lack of respect towards the criminal justice machinery.”
In her complaint, the 27-year-old woman lawyer alleged that she met the accused through a friend and had gone to his house for a party, where he raped her and later promised to marry her since he was a widower.
