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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: Hang Me If You Can Prove My Relation With Kin of CJI: Utsav Bains
Description: The name Utsav Bains has triggered chatter in Supreme Court corridors ever since he claimed that he was “offered bribe to help frame CJI (Chief Justice of India) in the sexual harassment case”. In his affidavit to the SC, he said that he was offered Rs 50 lakh as legal fees to take up the sexual harassment case against the CJI by a former SC staff. But when he refused to defend the victim, he says, he was offered Rs 1.5 crore.
The Quint learnt from a few lawyers that Bains is a friend/acquaintance of the CJI’s close...