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Informist, Monday, Mar. 24, 2025

 

NEW DELHI – A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking registration of a first information report against Justice Yashwant Varma amid allegations that a huge pile of cash was found at his residence. The petitioners, advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara and others, have contested an apex court verdict of 1991, which held no criminal case would be registered against a judge of a high court, chief Justice of a high court or judge of the Supreme Court unless the Chief Justice of India was consulted in the matter.

 

The apex court's 1991 verdict doesn't notice that the police is under a statutory duty to register an FIR when it receives information of a cognisable offence, and the order of the court is nothing short of restraining the police from discharging their statutory duty, the petitioners said. 

 

The Supreme Court on Saturday formed a three-member committee to conduct an enquiry into allegations that a huge pile of cash was found at Justice Yashwant Varma's residence after a fire had broken out at his place. When the fire broke out, Justice Varma was not in town and his family members called the fire brigade, which found the cash and later, the police were informed. 

 

In Justice Yashwant Varma's case, no FIR has been filed to the knowledge of the petitiones. The public perception is that very effort will be made to cover up the issue to the extent even the initial statements regarding recovery of money are now being refuted, the petitions said. 

 

In his explanation, Varma has stated that it was not his money, that he never kept any money, and was fully taken aback by it. The petitioners questioned why Justice varma had not reported to the police and sought the registration of an FIR for an attempt to falsely implicate him. Why did he not report the matter to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and the Chief Justice of India, the petitioners questioned. "The case at hand is an open and shut case. It is a case of a holding black money accumulated by selling justice," the petitioners said.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Avishek Dutta

 

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