The man known for cancelling 2G licences

Justice Ganguly,who expressed shock over the woman’s allegation,said she had not raised the issue of sexual harassment with him.

Justice Ganguly was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court on January 10,1994,and served as chief justice of the Orissa High Court and Madras High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court on December 17,2008.

At the apex court,Ganguly authored the significant judgment that said that the majority decision of a five-member constitution bench upholding the suspension of fundamental rights during the Emergency in the ADM Jabalpur vs S K Shukla case,was erroneous.

He declared as unconstitutional and arbitrary the decision of the then Left Front government in West Bengal to allot a piece of prime land in Kolkata to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly,and ruled that under the Hindu Marriage Act,illegitimate children were entitled to all rights in the property of their parents,both self-acquired and ancestral.

His bench also levied an exemplary fine of Rs 10 lakh on the Maharashtra government in a case pertaining to an attempt by the then chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to interfere in an ongoing criminal investigation against the family of a Congress MLA.

He was appointed chairperson of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission in April 2012.