Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma refutes allegations of unaccounted cash recovered from his official residence – India Legal

Delhi Excessive Court docket Choose Justice Yashwant on Saturday refuted the allegations that unaccounted money was recovered from his official residence on March 14.

In his response to Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Varma stated that no foreign money was recovered from his premises.

He additional requested the CJI to absolve him of those unfounded and baseless allegations.

Justice Verma stated within the lifetime of a decide, nothing mattered greater than popularity and character. The incident has severely tarnished and irreparably broken his popularity.

Justice Verma stated that baseless allegations have been levelled towards him on mere innuendos and an unproven assumption that the money allegedly seen and located belonged to him.

He additional stated the incident has scarred his popularity constructed over greater than a decade as a Choose of a Excessive Court docket, and left him with no means to defend himself.

Justice Varma stated that in all his years as a Choose of a Excessive Court docket, no such allegation had ever been made prior to now nor any doubt solid on his integrity.

Earlier on Saturday, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna constituted a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the alleged restoration of unaccounted money from the official residence of Justice Yashwant varma who’s sitting decide of Excessive court docket of Delhi.

A report was submitted by Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya to the CJI immediately, stating that the complete matter warranted a deeper probe.

After perusing the report, the CJI directed Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya to ask Justice Varma to file a written response by 12:00 pm on March 22, 2025, explaining how did he account for the presence of cash/money within the room situated in his premises.

Justice Varma was additional requested to elucidate the supply of cash/money discovered within the stated room, in addition to particulars of the one who eliminated the burnt cash/money from the room on themorning of March 15, 2025.

The CJI additional directed the Delhi Excessive Court docket Chief Justice to furnish particulars of the official employees of the Excessive Court docket Registry, the private safety officers and the safety guards posted on the residence of Justice Varma over the past six months.

CJI Khanna additionally requested Chief Justice Upadhyaya to position on report, the decision report particulars of the official or different cell phone quantity(s) of Justice Varma for the final six months.