The Supreme Court on March 21 said that misinformation and rumours were being spread in connection with the alleged cash discovery from the official residence of Delhi high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.
According to ANI, the top court stated that the proposal for the transfer of Justice Varma to the Allahabad high court was “independent and separate from the In-house enquiry procedure”.
“The proposal for transfer of Mr. Justice Yashwant Varma, who is the second senior most Judge in the Delhi High Court and a member of the Collegium, to his parent High Court i.e. the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, where he will be ninth in seniority, is independent and separate from the In-house enquiry procedure,” ANI quoted the statement as saying.
“The proposal was examined by the Collegium comprising of the Chief Justice of India and four senior most Judges of the Supreme Court on 20th March 2025, and thereafter letters were written to the consultee Judges of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justices of the High Courts concerned and Mr. Justice Yashwant Varma. Responses received will be examined and, thereupon, the Collegium will pass a resolution,” the top court added.
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna has initiated an initial inquiry against Delhi high court judge Yashwant Varma following a controversy over the alleged recovery of the stash of cash from his official residence in Delhi.
No Cash Found
Delhi Fire Services chief Atul Garg on Friday claimed that the firefighters found no cash during their operation to douse flames at the official residence of Delhi high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.
“The control room received a call about a blaze at Varma's Lutyens Delhi residence at 11.35 pm on March 14 and two fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot,” Garg told PTI.
Fire tenders reached the spot at 11.43 pm. The fire was in a store room stocked with stationery and domestic articles,”Garg said, adding that it took 15 minutes to control the flames. There were no casualties.
"Soon after dousing the flames, we informed police about the fire incident. Thereafter, a team of fire department personnel left the spot. Our fire fighters did not find any cash during their fire fighting operation," the DFS chief told PTI.
