In a contemporary improvement within the case pertaining to the restoration of money from the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma, the Supreme Court docket, on Saturday launched the video shared by the town’s Commissioner of Police with the Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Court docket (HC) exhibiting the burnt money piles purportedly at Varma’s residence.
The highest courtroom, in its press assertion, annexed the report submitted by the Chief Justice of the Delhi HC, the response of Justice Varma, and different paperwork moreover the movies. In his written rationalization furnished to the Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Court docket, Justice Varma, who’s going through the allegations that a considerable amount of unaccounted money was found at his residence final week, mentioned that the visuals depicting a burnt money pile seemed to be “a conspiracy to border and malign” him.
Video of Delhi Excessive Court docket Choose Yashwant Varma the place large amount of money discovered throughout fireplace accident
Now query is :
Why Fireplace division Lied?
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In line with the decide, the incident tends to present credence to his “agency perception that your complete incident is a part of a sequence of occasions which occurred within the current previous together with the unfounded allegations that circulated on social media in December 2024”.
“I unequivocally state that neither I nor any of my relations had saved or stored any money or forex in that storeroom at any level of time. Our money withdrawals, made on occasion, are all documented and at all times by way of common banking channels, the usage of UPI functions and playing cards. In as far as the allegation of the restoration of money, I as soon as once more make it clear that nobody from my home ever reported seeing any forex within the burnt kind within the room,” mentioned Justice Varma.
“Assuming with out admitting that the video was taken instantly on the time of the incident on the web site, none of it seems to have been recovered or seized. The second facet which I must underscore is that not one of the employees was proven any remnants of money or forex that will have been current on web site,” he added.
On Friday, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna constituted a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry in opposition to Justice Varma.
“The Chief Justice of India has constituted a three-member Committee consisting of Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the Excessive Court docket of Punjab and Haryana; Justice G.S. Sandhawalia, Chief Justice of the Excessive Court docket of Himachal Pradesh; and Anu Sivaraman, Choose of the Excessive Court docket of Karnataka, for conducting an inquiry into the allegations in opposition to Justice Yashwant Varma, a sitting Choose of the Excessive Court docket of Delhi,” mentioned a press assertion launched by the Supreme Court docket.
It added that the Chief Justice of the Delhi Excessive Court docket in the meanwhile has been requested to not assign any judicial work to Justice Yashwant Varma.
(With company Inputs)
