The Supreme Court Wednesday vowed to get to "the root" of claims that a conspiracy hatched by one of India's biggest "corporate houses" aimed to force Justice Ranjan Gogoi to resign as the Chief Justice of India. The Supreme Court's intent to get to the bottom of the allegations was clear when it summoned the chiefs of the Delhi Police, Central Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Bureau in the middle of their work day, at a moment's notice.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Arun Mishra, RF Nariman and Deepak Gupta was sitting on Wednesday after this weekend's extraordinary set of developments placed the Supreme Court and the seat of the Chief Justice of India under the country's spotlight.

First, four news organisations published bombshell report Saturday morning alleging CJI Ranjan Gogoi had sexually harassed a woman who once worked at his home office. The news reports, which initially did not have any comment from Gogoi or the Supreme Court, were based on an affidavit written by the woman in question and sent to over 20 judges of the Supreme Court.

What does the affidavit say? Well, the document essentially documented how the CJI Ranjan Gogoi allegedly harassed the woman over a period of few days at his home office, where she was employed, months after he became Chief Justice of India.

The woman claimed:

She worked at the Supreme Court where Ranjan Gogoi allegedly took 'special interest' in her professional and personal life before getting her transferred to his home office
At his home office, CJI Gogoi allegedly made unwanted physical advances and sexually harassed her
She was then repeatedly transferred to different Supreme Court departments before being fired from the job completely. Her family also faced persecution from government authorities
How did CJI Ranjan Gogoi react?

Well, quite unusually. Hours after the unidentified woman's allegations were published by the four websites -- The Quint, The Caravan, Scroll and The Wire -- the Supreme Court called an urgent hearing on Saturday, usually an off day for the top court.

The judges at the hearing included CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Arun Mishra and Sanjiv Khanna. The hearing was held to discuss a "matter of great public importance touching upon the independence of judiciary". The government's top two lawyers -- Attorney General KK Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta -- were also present.