Observing that the rich and powerful who think they can "remote control" it are playing with fire, the Supreme Court Thursday appointed its former judge Justice A K Patnaik to probe allegations of larger conspiracy to frame CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
Expressing its anguish over the "systematic attack" to "malign" the apex court in the last three-four years, it also warned that if this is not stopped then this great institution "will die".
The court made the hard hitting observations while hearing an affidavit filed by lawyer Utsav Singh Bains claiming "larger conspiracy" to frame Justice Gogoi on sexual harassment allegations and fix benches in the top court,
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