New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, is opposing a renewed push by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to unseal grand jury transcripts in the high-profile sex trafficking case, arguing that doing so would violate her due process rights and undermine her pending appeal before the US Supreme Court.

Maxwell's legal team urged the court to reject the government's proposal to release the transcripts, emphasising that public interest alone does not justify breaching grand jury secrecy in an active criminal case.

"Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, he...