SC asks Justice Varma why he appeared before inquiry panel if it was unconstitutional
The Supreme Court on Monday asked Allahabad High Court’s Justice Yashwant Varma why he appeared before the in-house inquiry committee probing the unaccounted cash row if it was unconstitutional, reported Bar and Bench.
“Judges have abstained from attending these proceedings in the past,” said a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih.
The bench also questioned why Varma waited for the inquiry committee to submit its report before moving the court, according to Live Law.
The court was hearing Varma’s plea against the committee’s report that indicted him in the unaccounted cash row. The Allahabad High Court judge had also challenged the recommendation made by Sanjiv Khanna – the chief justice of India when the report was submitted – to the president and the prime minister to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.
Unaccounted cash was allegedly recovered at Varma’s official residence in Delhi when emergency services responded to a fire there on March 14. He was a judge at the Delhi High Court at that time. The judge said he was in Bhopal when the cash was discovered and claimed that it did not belong to him or his family.
Amid the row, he was transferred to the Allahabad High Court.
On Monday, Varma told the Supreme Court that he had appeared before the three-member inquiry committee because he thought...
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