New Delhi, January 10
The Supreme Court will not take any action on the sexual harassment complaint by another law student against one of its retired judges and the alleged victim is free to file a complaint with the police, sources said today.

A news channel named the judge, who retired more than a year ago and is currently presiding over a tribunal. The incident allegedly took place when he was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.

The woman, who was interning with the judge in May 2011, had filed a complaint with the SC along with an affidavit seeking action against him. She had already been conveyed about the top court’s inability to take up her case, sources said.

The complaint by the intern had come close on the heels of an allegation by another law student against ex-SC Judge AK Ganguly.

The SC was not inclined to step into the fresh complaint despite the fact that the alleged incident, according to the victim, pertained to the period when her ‘tormentor’ was a sitting judge of the SC.

Reports indicated that the intern, like the first victim, was a former student of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising, who had spearheaded a campaign against Ganguly, has backed the second intern. “I am very clear that action should be taken and an inquiry should be done by the SC against the then sitting judge against whom the allegations have been levelled," she said. Senior advocate Harish Salve said he had seen the intern's complaint. “It is really disturbing as it pertains to the conduct of a judge in his pre-retirement days," he said.