New Delhi, July 10 -- A Madhya Pradesh woman judicial officer, whose controversial dismissal was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier this year, has urged the top court collegium to reconsider its recent recommendation for elevating a senior district judge to the Madhya Pradesh high court, citing serious allegations of misconduct, caste-based harassment and abuse of authority against him. In a strongly worded representation addressed to the Chief Justice of India and other companion judges in the collegium, judicial officer Aditi Kumar Sharma called the proposed elevation of district judge Rajesh Kumar Gupta a "gross misjudgment that threatens the credibility of judicial institutions". Along with four other judicial officers, Gupta, who is currently working as principal district and sessions judge at Ujjain, was on July 2 recommended by the collegium for appointment in the state high court. He is the senior most in the list of nominees. Gupta declined HT's request for comment, citing ethics and code of conduct. He said that he is functioning under the subordination of the high court and it is only for the office of registrar general to the high court to respond on such matters. On her part, Sharma also refused to issue a statement owing to her service conditions even as she confirmed that she has moved a representation. The development comes just four months after the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment on February 28, declared Sharma's 2023 termination from service as "arbitrary and illegal", reinstating her with all consequential benefits. Sharma has since been reinstated as a civil judge in Shahdol. "It is with great anguish and urgency that I place before Your Lordships a heartfelt, solemn representation," Sharma writes in the letter, seen by HT, alleging that Gupta was directly responsible for biased and malicious inquiries that led to her wrongful termination from service. Her letter outlined multiple written complaints of misconduct against Gupta, including one from a Dalit district judge alleging caste-based harassment, and another by a principal district judge accusing him of public abuse, intimidation of judicial peers and bureaucrats, and derogatory remarks against senior high court judges and their families. "These complaints were neither duly inquired into nor were the complainants ever called for statement or hearing," Sharma notes....