Justice Varma cash recovery row: Supreme Court hearing on Allahabad HC Judge Justice Varma LIVE updates on July 28, 2025

Delhi High Court Justice Yashwant Varma cash row: timeline of events

• July 28, 2025 10:34

  SC’s in-house inquiry usurps Parliament’s authority, erodes judicial independence: Justice Varma

  

  SC’s in-house inquiry usurps Parliament’s authority, erodes judicial independence: Justice Varma

  Justice Yashwant Varma challenges removal recommendation based on unaccounted cash found in his residence after a fire.

• July 28, 2025 09:35

  Lok Sabha to take up motion to remove Justice Varma, motion not admitted in Rajya Sabha

  Lok Sabha will take up a bipartisan motion to remove Justice Yashwant Varma, who is embroiled in a suspected corruption case, as the opposition-sponsored notice for a similar motion in Rajya Sabha was not admitted. 

  Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Friday (July 25, 2025) that it was a unanimous decision of all political parties to move unitedly in a case of perceived corruption in judiciary, asserting that Lok Sabha will take up the motion, which was signed by 152 MPs from the ruling alliance and the Opposition. 

  Official sources said the Opposition-sponsored notice for a similar motion in Rajya Sabha, which received it on the same day when the bipartisan notice was submitted to Lok Sabha on July 21, has not been admitted. 

  This ends speculation about the fate of the notice signed by 63 Rajya Sabha members of Opposition parties. Then Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar had mentioned receiving it in the House, alarming the government and triggering a chain of events that led to his abrupt resignation on the same night. 

  Mr. Rijiju said all political parties had agreed that the removal of Varma should be a joint call, adding that the proceedings will be taken up in Lok Sabha and then move to Rajya Sabha in line with the Judges (Enquiry) Act. — PTI

• July 28, 2025 09:18

  CJI agrees to constitute Bench to hear plea on behalf of Justice Varma

  Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) said he will constitute a Bench for hearing a petition filed on behalf of Allahabad High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, challenging the in-house inquiry procedure and the then Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s recommendation to the President and Prime Minister, in the month of May, to remove the judge from office.

  The Chief Justice said he, however, would not be part of the Bench.

  CJI agrees to constitute Bench to hear plea on behalf of Justice Varma

• July 28, 2025 09:17

  Cash discovery row: Piles of currency notes found in Justice Varma’s gutted storeroom, says inquiry committee report

  An in-house inquiry committee constituted by the Chief Justice of India concluded that cash was found in the gutted storeroom at the official residential premises of High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, and police and fire authorities were “slipshod” in not lodging an FIR or preparing a seizure memo recording exactly what they came across at the scene of the fire on March 14-15.

  The committee said the “higher police officials” had sought to explain their inaction by pointing to reasons like the “sensitivity of the issue” and the absence of Justice Varma at his residence at the time of incident. Justice Varma and his wife were in Bhopal on a holiday trip on the night of the fire. 

  Cash discovery row: Piles of currency notes found in Justice Varma’s gutted storeroom, says inquiry committee report

• July 28, 2025 09:16

  SC’s in-house inquiry usurps Parliament’s authority, erodes judicial independence: Justice Varma

  Allahabad High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, said on Friday (July 18, 2025) that the Supreme Court’s in-house inquiry process, which recommended his removal from office, is a “parallel, extra-constitutional mechanism” designed for the judiciary to usurp the Parliament’s exclusive authority.

  An in-house inquiry committee of three judges constituted by the then-Chief Justice of India, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, had confirmed that unaccounted cash was found in the gutted storeroom at Justice Varma’s official residence after a blaze on March 14 and 15 this year. Chief Justice Khanna (now retired) had forwarded the report to the Prime Minister and President in May after Justice Varma had refused to resign.

  SC’s in-house inquiry usurps Parliament’s authority, erodes judicial independence: Justice Varma

• July 28, 2025 09:02

  Supreme Court says Delhi High Court judge’s transfer is not related to ‘rumours’

  The Supreme Court issued a statement on Friday (March 21, 2025) that “misinformation and rumours” are being spread with regard to an “incident” at the residence of Delhi High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, compelling the apex court Collegium to transfer him out. 

  The statement from the Supreme Court came after a report by The Times of India, followed by source-based online media reports, that a “huge pile of cash” was recovered when a fire broke out in the residential bungalow of the judge. 

  The press note issued by the Supreme Court, while confirming the existence of a proposal to transfer Justice Varma, stated categorically that it was unconnected with an in-house enquiry procedure into the “incident”.

  Supreme Court says Delhi High Court judge’s transfer is not related to ‘rumours’

• July 28, 2025 09:00

  Supreme Court to hear Justice Yashwant Varma’s petition against in-house committee report

  A Supreme Court bench consisting of Justices Dipankar Datta and A.G. Mashi is due to hear a petition scheduled on July 28 filed by Allahabad HC judge Justice Yashwant Varma.

  The petition challenging the in-house inquiry procedure and the subsequent recommendation of then Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, for his removal from office, in connection with the allegation that the half-burnt currency was found in his residential premises in Delhi on the intervening night of March 14-15.

  Supreme Court to hear Justice Yashwant Varma’s petition against in-house committee report on July 28