Guwahati: A social worker and president of an Assam-based NGO has filed a Rs one crore defamation case against Rajya Sabha MP and former Chief Justice of India (CJI), Ranjan Gogoi and appealed court to ban his autobiography.
The petitioner, Abhijit Sharma of NGO Assam Public Works has alleged that Gogoi's autobiography 'Justice for the Judge' contained some misleading and offensive information against him.
Sharma said that Gogoi on page 173 of the book wrote, "At local level, attacks on the state coordinator of the National Register of Citizens (Prateek Hajela) and veiled attacks on the judges, particularly me, by local politicians and especially by Abhijit Sharma (petitioner in W.P(C) No. 274 of 2009) left us (the Bench) convinced that orders should be passed to protect Hajela from undue harassment and calculated harm. The Bench passed the order dated 18 October 2019 for his deputation on inter-cadre transfer to Madhya Pradesh, his home state."
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"Subsequent events like the filing of FIRs against Hajela and other NRC officials; allegations of corruption and threats to order CBI probes besides enormous misinformation to the media and wide publicity thereof leave me convinced that the Bench was thoroughly justified in passing the rather unusual order for the inter-cadre transfer of Hajela bu invoking Article 142 of the Constitution," his book read.
Sharma alleged that Gogoi has written false, baseless and defamatory statements. He has filed two cases against him in Kamrup Metropolitan Civil Court. A month ago, Sharma had warned Gogoi in a video that he has to appear in the court and also sought an apology from him. However, Gogoi did not respond to Sharma.
