Shah Sets Justice Varma Impeachment Ball Rolling

DAYS after the abrupt resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, the government set the ball rolling for the impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Yaswant Varma with Union minister Amit Shah holding high-level meetings with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh on Wednesday.

- PREETHA NAIR @New Delhi

Sources said while Birla and Harivansh held a meeting at Parliament to discuss the proceedings, Shah met them later.

According to people familiar with the development, the Lok Sabha Speaker may now initiate the process to set up a statutory committee to examine the charges of corruption leveled against the judge. The committee comprising a senior judge of the Supreme Court, a sitting chief justice of a high court and a distinguished jurist will then probe the charges against him and submit its report in three months.