Cash recovery at judge Yashwant Varma’s dwelling: CJI may decide on inquiry today | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: A day after transferring Justice Yashwant Varma of Delhi excessive court docket again to his mother or father Allahabad HC, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna sought and obtained a report from Delhi HC Chief Justice D Ok Upadhyay Friday on alleged recovery of money from Justice Varma’s official residence on March 14, on Holi.

The CJI is prone to take a choice by Saturday on organising an inquiry panel. Justice Varma didn’t maintain court docket within the HC on Friday.
In a uncommon press word, Supreme Court mentioned, “On receiving the information, Delhi HC CJ commenced in-house enquiry procedure collecting evidence and information… and will be submitting a report to CJI Sanjiv Khanna Friday.” The word was mum on the “information”, however that it warranted an “in-house inquiry procedure” left little to the creativeness
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The report will likely be examined and processed for additional and essential motion,” the SC said. Justice Upadhyay, who also hails from Allahabad HC and was CJ of Bombay HC before his appointment in Delhi HC, sought Justice Varma’s explanation and inquired into other documents relating to the fire incident that led to discovery of a pile of cash.
On Justice Varma’s transfer, the collegium resolution, which was yet to be uploaded on the SC website, said, “The proposal for switch of Justice Varma, who’s the second senior-most judge in Delhi HC and a member of the HC collegium, to his mother or father Allahabad HC, the place he will likely be ninth in seniority, is impartial and separate from the in-house enquiry process.
“The proposal (for transfer) was examined by the collegium consisting of the CJI and four senior-most judges on March 20, and thereafter letters were written to consultee-judges of the SC, the CJs of the HCs concerned and Justice Varma. Responses received will be examined and, thereupon, the collegium will pass a resolution.”
Speculation ran excessive in SC corridors a few full court docket assembly as not one of the 17 benches functioned until 10.45 am, quarter-hour past the scheduled graduation of enterprise hours. The CJI, who may be very punctual in commencing his court docket at 10.30am day-after-day, started proceedings solely at 11.15am as he and the 4 senior-most judges of the SC had been engaged in a gathering until 11.10 am.
According to the in-house process devised by the SC in 1999 to take care of complaints of misdemeanour, misconduct and corruption expenses in opposition to judges, it’s the CJI’s prerogative to take a choice commensurate with the gravity of the CJ’s report.
If the report absolves the judge of the allegations, the CJI may decide to junk the problem. However, if the report signifies a level of reality within the allegations, then the CJI might take the judge involved into confidence and supply him the resignation escape route.
If the judge refuses to resign, then the CJI may represent a three-member inquiry panel headed by a sitting SC judge and comprising chief justices of two excessive courts aside from the HC the place he’s working.
After discovery of an enormous pile of money at Justice Varma’s residence, which Allahabad HC Bar Association put at Rs 15 crore in a letter protesting his repatriation, CJI Khanna on Friday informally briefed SC judges in regards to the incident and mentioned the laid-down process could be adopted to unravel the matter.
The in-house process was based mostly on the judgment in ‘C Ravichandran vs Justice A M Bhattacharjee’ (1995), the place SC laid down: “The CJI, on receipt of the information from the HC CJ, after being satisfied about the correctness and truth touching the conduct of the judge, may tender such advice either directly or may initiate such action as is deemed necessary or warranted under given facts and circumstances.”