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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO. 792 OF 2014

Additional District and Sessions Judge ‘X’

… Petitioner

versus

Registrar General,

High Court of Madhya Pradesh and others

… Respondents

J U D G M E N T

Jagdish Singh Khehar, J.

1.

The present writ petition has been filed by a former

Additional District and Sessions Judge of the Madhya Pradesh

Higher Judicial Service. The factual narration in the writ petition

incorporates allegations of sexual harassment aimed at the

petitioner, at the behest of a sitting Judge of the High Court of

Madhya Pradesh (herein after referred to as, ‘the High Court’),

who has been impleaded by name as respondent no.3. The

authenticity of the allegations levelled by the petitioner, which

have been expressly disputed by respondent no.3, would stand

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affirmed or repudiated only after culmination of due process.

Such being the sensitivity of the matter, it would be inappropriate

to disclose the identity either of the petitioner or of respondent

no.3. In the title of the present writ petition, as also i