SC Rejects Justice Varma's Plea, Says His Conduct Does Not Inspire Confidence

The Court Also Found No Violation of Justice Varma's Fundamental Rights

- MPOST BUREAU

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the findings of an in-house inquiry committee that held him guilty of misconduct following the discovery of a large amount of half-burnt cash at his official residence in Delhi earlier this year.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih said Justice Varma's conduct does not inspire confidence and his plea should not be entertained, a major upset for the judge at the centre of controversy since March when a huge cache of half-burnt cash was found following a fire in the storeroom of his official residence in Delhi.

Justice Varma had also sought quashing of the May 8 recommendation by then Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna urging Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.

The top court said the then CJI and the in-house committee scrupulously followed procedure except for uploading of the video footage and the photographs.