The Supreme Court-appointed enquiry panel shaped to probe into money discovery allegations towards Justice Yashwant Verma has submitted its report back to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna.
Then Delhi HC pass judgement on, Justice Varma is embroiled in an issue surrounding the alleged discovery of an enormous pile of burnt money within the storeroom hooked up to his bungalow in Delhi after the hearth brigade had long gone there to douse a blaze on March 14.
“The three-member Committee consisting of Mr Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Mr Justice G.S. Sandhawalia, Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh. and Ms Justice Anu Sivaraman, Judge of the High Court of Karnataka, constituted for conducting an inquiry into the allegations against Mr Justice Yashwant Varma, a sitting Judge, has submitted its report dated 03.05.2025 to the Chief Justice of India on 04.05.2025,” stated a press launched issued via the apex court docket on Monday.
Justice Varma’s switch from Delhi High Court to Allahabad HC, amid an in-house probe, used to be cleared via the Union executive on March 28.
The CJI Khanna-led Supreme Court Collegium had previous advisable that the Centre repatriate Justice Varma to the Allahabad High Court. It had stated that the proposal for the switch of Justice Varma, who’s the second one senior-most pass judgement on within the Delhi High Court, to his dad or mum High Court, i.e. the Allahabad High Court, the place he would be the 9th in seniority, is “independent and separate from the In-house enquiry procedure”.
Justice Varma used to be taken off judicial paintings prior to being despatched to the Allahabad HC. His shift to Uttar Pradesh got here in spite of opposition from the bar associations in Lucknow and Allahabad. While Justice Varma has denied any wrongdoing, CJI Khanna constituted a 3-member committee within the closing week of March to behavior an in-house inquiry.