On 18.11.2014 we five sisters had been arrested by
the Pondicherry Police under the directions given by Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya
and were released on bail on the condition that we appear before him on
02.12.2014. With great difficulty we managed to make basic arrangements and appeared
before Justice Mukhopadhaya on 02.12.2014 and this is what transpired.
When our case was called on 02.12.2014 trustees’
lawyer Sanjay Parekh and on the other side Nivedita and myself appeared before
Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya. As soon as we stood before him, Justice S.J.
Mukhopadhaya took our file and threw it aside saying that we sisters did not
want him to sit on judgment for the contempt petition. He then went on to
falsely accuse us that we had some lawyer hailing from Bihar who knew his
family and who had written a letter against him on our behalf seeking some kind
of a vengeance against him. He then admitted that he had visited Pondicherry
Ashram 4 times, including the time as mentioned in the letter, but no one had
ever told him anything. However since he was to retire in two months time he
did not want any black spot of professional misconduct on his career and so he
did not want to take up the matter on professional ethics.
When Justice Mukhopadhaya also stated that the
letter accused him that his children were practicing in the Supreme Court, one
of the lawyers supported him by saying that he knew of no such persons. Justice
Mukhopadhaya then admitted that it was a fact that his children were practicing
in the Supreme Court and not many people knew about it.
By his admission Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya not
only proved his already indulged in professional misconduct, by inference he
also admitted having favored the trustees throughout the SLP proceedings and
the contempt proceedings and exposed their mutually beneficial relationship
either through his children or by his own self.
Thereafter Sanjay Parekh, as instructed by
Matriprasad and Devdip Ganguly (trustees’ henchmen), complained to Justice S.J.
Mukhopadhaya that we had started a website wherein we were accusing many other
judges of having visited the Ashram, even the Chief Justice of Supreme Court. I
responded by saying that it was true since I had myself seen these judges with
my very own eyes enjoying the hospitality of the trustees and being entertained
by Matriparasad and other trustees’ sycophants.
I then told Justice Muphopadhaya that a copy of the
letter he was referring to had been sent to us also by RPAD and I had filed the
same as part of our counter in the contempt petition. The letter had been sent
by some citizens of a corruption free society. At this Justice Mukhopadhaya
accused me of being a member of corrupt society. I strongly retorted that it
was he who was corrupt and a member of corrupt society, illegally helping the
trustees in all their wrongdoings for personal gain and glory, and that I was a
citizen of a corruption free society and led an upright life.
Sanjay Parekh once again tried to belittle us by
uttering nonsense against our character and how we were in the habit of filing
false complaints. I vehemently denied his allegations stating that the contents
of the blog spoke the truth for themselves and no amount of mudslinging would
wash off the trustees’ misdeeds.
However Justice Mukhopadhaya was not inclined to
give us an opportunity to be heard. I was really angry and I shouted at him
that after issuing bailable arrest warrant, after having us arrested and
humiliated, he cannot now deny us an opportunity to be heard and simply wash
off his hands from the case on the ground that he fears black spot on his career
if he continues to sit on this case. But all my heated submissions fell on deaf
ears. He simply refused to listen to us.
I also requested the matter to be posted in a day
or two since we were leaving by 04.12.2014 evening and that we could not
prolong our stay since we had appeared at the Supreme Court with great
difficulty and were facing great hardship. Justice Mukhopadhaya laughingly belittled
our submission saying that we were facing no hardship and he knew fully well
the life we led in the Ashram was one of comfort and decadence. We were furious
and categorically informed him that he knew nothing of the hell we were going
through because of the trustees’ highhandedness which they were wielding because
of the support of corrupt judges likes him.
I then requested him to receive our counter in the
contempt petition but he arrogantly threw away our file and called for the next
case to be heard. He compounded the miscarriage of justice by even failing to
receive our counter knowing fully well that we would not be able to appear
whenever our case was next listed.
As the next item was called the lawyers of the other
cases were shooing us away so that they could be heard and in the face of such open
hostility shown to us by Justice Mukhopadhaya, insulting him by showing him our
back we began to move away. Then fury at the injustice and harassment caused by
Justice Mukhopadhaya overtook us and both Nivedita and myself began enumerating
loudly the manner by which the trustees and these corrupt judges were victimizing
us on false grounds - first that in a sexual harassment case the judges had
issued eviction proceedings, second that even when there was no mention on suit
premises Justice Mukhopadhaya and Gogoi had issued eviction proceedings. We
also showed the pornographic chits received by us and asked all present in the
court hall whether justice was being given to us. One of the lawyers
reprimanded us by saying that this is not the way to behave to which I retorted
that is this the way supreme court renders justice. For five minutes we let off
steam in this manner exposing and highlighting the various misdeeds of the
trustees who were helped by these corrupt judges and then we left the court
hall with dignity.
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