New Delhi, June 17: A gynaecologist today issued a suicide threat in the Supreme Court over what she claimed was a false case against her, lodged apparently after she spurned the alleged sexual advances of a sitting Delhi High Court judge.

Meena Chaudhary, who argued her case briefly in person, claimed that BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd had falsely implicated her in a power-theft case at the behest of the high court judge. She said she would kill herself if the apex court did not straightaway hear her petition to quash the case.

“My fundamental rights, statutory rights and constitutional rights cannot be violated. I have no other remedy but to approach this court. I don’t want to go back to Delhi High Court. Otherwise, I will commit suicide and I mean it,” the 61-year-old told the bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and Ranjan Gogoi.

The apex court issued notices to BSES Rajdhani and Gagan Bhaskar, station house officer of Vasant Kunj police station, whom the petitioner accuses of not acting on her complaint against the power company.

“We will send the notice through a special messenger and hear your case on Monday next,” the court assured her.

Chaudhary’s suicide threat had come after the bench had wondered why she had come to the apex court when her dispute with the power company was being heard by the high court.

“Why did you come to us? You could have gone to the high court,” the bench said. The petitioner replied she didn’t want to go to the high court again “as a senior judicial officer has made my life miserable”.

She did not name the judge orally although her petition names him. She has alleged that the judge sent her several obscene messages on her mobile.

Chaudhary says she lives in a Vasant Kunj guesthouse run by a pharma company and that BSES had imposed a penalty of Rs 1.61 lakh on her in 2010 claiming she was drawing power illegally from the main line.

In a police complaint, she has alleged that the power company’s staff had deliberately removed the meter to falsely implicate her.

In January 2011, a lower court had issued a non-bailable warrant against Chaudhary on a complaint from BSES, after which she surrendered and was released on bond. She moved Delhi High Court in March 2011 to have the case quashed but the matter has been pending since then.

Chaudhary told The Telegraph that her husband had deserted her a few years ago and settled in a foreign country with another woman without giving her a formal divorce.

She said the high court judge she has accused was dealing with the maintenance suit she had filed in 2008 against her estranged husband, and alleged that he had since then been seeking sexual favours.

“I will fight it out till my last breath. Truth will triumph,” said Chaudhary, whose late father was a senior civil judge in Bihar.