The Supreme Court on Thursday said former top court judge A.K. Patnaik committee report has pointed out that a conspiracy to level sexual harassment charges against former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in April 2019 cannot be ruled out.

A bench comprising Justices S.K. Kaul, A.S. Bopanna and V.Ramasubramanian said that there exists a reason to believe that decisions by the former Chief Justice may have led to a conspiracy being hatched against him.