MP judge resigns after senior she accused of harassment elevated

The Madhya Pradesh woman judge, who last month wrote to the Supreme Court collegium, opposing its recommendation to elevate a district judge to the state high court, tendered her resignation Tuesday. Aditi Gajendra Sharma, who works as civil judge in Shahdol district, had accused her senior Rajesh Kumar Gupta of mentally harassing her by discriminating against her on the basis of caste. She had failed to get a hearing on her representations against him. Her resignation letter submitted to the principal district judge of Shahdol, comes a day after the Centre Monday notified district judge Rajesh Kumar Gupta’s appointment as a judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court for two years. 
Sharma’s letter underlines a sense of disappointment with the institution that has “failed to protect her”. The judge has reiterated her allegations against Gupta in the letter, while accusing him of orchestrating her suffering.The letter has in very strong words criticised his recommendation and subsequent elevation as a HC judge. Disillusioned about not getting justice, the woman judge has pointed out that the same judiciary that “sermonises” about transparency has failed to follow the basic tenets of natural justice “within its own halls”.
The letter further points out that her complaints were not anonymous, but were documented with facts. Yet, there was no inquiry on them. And, even if there was one, she was never called for giving her version, it adds.The judicial officer claimed that she accused the judge with documented facts, but there was no inquiry, no notice and even no explanation was asked of him. "No inquiry. No notice. No hearing. No accountability - (He) is not titled justice, a cruel joke upon the very word".
"I was not seeking revenge. I was crying for justice - not just for myself, but for the institution I cherished and believed in even when it did not believe in me... I leave now, with wounds that no reinstatement, no compensation, no apology will ever heal. Let this letter haunt the files it enters," she added. She said that she was signing off "not as an officer of the court, but as a victim of its silence". "I leave this institution with no medals, no celebration and no bitterness, only the bitter truth that the judiciary failed me. But worse - it failed itself," she wrote.