VP Dhankhar: Time has come to revisit ruling on prior sanction to prosecute SC, HC judges

VICE-PRESIDENT Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday asserted “time has come to revisit" the Supreme Court judgment that ruled prior sanction would be required to prosecute top court and high court judges, as he questioned the delay in lodging of an FIR in the cash discovery case involving high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.

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He also described as a "serious issue" the move of the three-judge in-house committee probing into the case to recover electronic equipment from witnesses. "This is a serious issue. How can this be done?"

Laying stress on the need for a scientific criminal investigation into the matter, Dhankhar said everyone in the country was thinking if this would be washed off, whether it would fade with time.

"How come the criminal justice system was not operationalised as it would have done for every other individual? ... This issue for which people are waiting with bated breath, the money trail, its source, its purpose, did it pollute the judicial system? Who are the bigger sharks? We need to find out. Already two months have gone by and no one knows better than people before me. Investigation is required to be with expedition," he said.