Justice Varma transfer: CJI Khanna assures Bar leaders demand for withdrawal of Collegium recommendation will be considered

Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday (March 27, 2025) assured Bar leaders to consider their demand for withdrawal of the collegium's recommendation to transfer Delhi High Court's Justice Yashwant Varma, Allahabad High Court Bar Association president Anil Tiwari said.

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The representatives of six Bar associations of different High Courts met the CJI and other collegium members Justices B R Gavai, Surya Kant, Abhay S Oka and Vikram Nath in the afternoon.

They deliberated upon the memorandum of the bar bodies and assured consideration of their demand, said Tiwari after coming out of the meeting held in the apex court.

He said the Allahabad High Court Bar body would reconsider whether or not to continue with the indefinite strike.

The Allahabad High Court Bar Association has been on an indefinite strike from March 25 to protest the proposed repatriation of Justice Varma to his parent high court.

Earlier in the day, representatives of the bar associations of High Courts of Allahabad, Gujarat, Kerala, Jabalpur, Karnataka and Lucknow submitted a memorandum to the CJI's office and sought an appointment to meet Justice Khanna.

While pointing out an alleged tampering of the evidence at Justice Varma's official residence where burnt wads of cash were purportedly discovered on March 14 during a fire incident, the members questioned non-registration of an FIR in the incident.

In a memorandum, the Bar bodies appreciated the steps taken by the CJI to embrace transparency and to make public the report of the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and other materials on the apex court website.