‘Process of removal should start’: LS Speaker forms panel to probe Justice Varma cash row; who’s on committee? | India News

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday introduced the formation of a three-member committee to examine allegations towards Justice Yashwant Varma in reference to the “cash-at-home” controversy.The panel will embody senior advocate PV Acharya of the Karnataka excessive Court because the jurist member. SC choose Aravind Kumar, Madras HC Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava are the opposite members of the committee.“The members of the Committee include Justice Arvind Kumar, Supreme Court Judge, Justice Maninder Mohan Srivastava, Chief Justice Madras High Court, and BV Acharya, Senior Advocate, Karnataka High Court. The committee will submit its report as early as possible. The proposal will remain pending till the receipt of the report of the inquiry committee,” Birla mentioned.Birla accepted a movement signed by 146 MPs in search of the impeachment of Justice Yashwant Varma. “The committee will submit its report as early as possible. The proposal (for removal of Justice Varma) will remain pending till the receipt of the report of the inquiry committee,” Birla mentioned, in accordance to PTI. On August 7, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the in-house inquiry that beneficial Justice Varma’s removal. It additionally rejected his plea claiming he wasn’t given a good listening to. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal had represented him.The House additionally resolved that an handle be offered to the President for the removal of Yashwant Varma from workplace for his misconduct.Wads of burnt cash had been discovered following a hearth within the storeroom of the choose’s official residence within the capital on March 14.