The three-member committee appointed by former Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna to analyze the alleged restoration of unaccounted money from the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma has concluded in its 64-page report that there was enough substance to provoke proceedings for the elimination of the previous Delhi Excessive Court docket choose.
The committee comprised Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Sheel Nagu, Himachal Pradesh Excessive Court docket Chief Justice GS Sandhawalia and Karnataka Excessive Court docket choose Anu Sivaraman.
After conducting a radical investigation for greater than 10 days by means of a number of sittings and visits to the scene of the unintentional fireplace and examination of 55 witnesses, the committee mentioned that money/cash was discovered within the retailer room of 30 Tughlak Crescent, New Delhi formally occupied by Justice (Yashwant) Varma and that the choose couldn’t account for the supply of the cash.
The entry to the shop room (the place the money was saved) was discovered to be inside the covert or energetic management of Justice Varma and his members of the family, it mentioned, including that by the use of sturdy inferential proof, it was established that the burnt money/cash was faraway from the shop room in the course of the wee hours of March 15, 2025 from 30 Tughlak Crescent, New Delhi
The committee mentioned no less than 10 witnesses acknowledged having seen burnt or half-burnt foreign money notes.
As a part of its investigation, the panel got here up with three questions.
To the query on whether or not burnt foreign money was discovered within the retailer room at 30 Tuglak Crescent, New Delhi, the committee replied in affirmative.
On whether or not the shop home was inside the premises of 30 Tughlak Crescent, New Delhi or not, it mentioned sure.
The report additional mentioned that Justice Varma couldn’t give a passable reply to the presence of cash/money within the retailer room.
As per the report, the half-burnt foreign money notes seen and located in the course of the means of dousing of fireside have been extremely suspicious gadgets and extra so aren’t of small quantity or denomination which couldn’t have been positioned within the retailer room with out the tacit or energetic consent of Justice Varma or his members of the family.
The committee dominated that the objection of Justice Varma that was put to an obstacle by having to disprove that the burnt foreign money notes weren’t discovered within the retailer room wanted to be rejected on the very outset.
On whether or not the shop home was inside the premises of 30 Tughlak Crescent, New Delhi or not, the committee discovered that the tacit and energetic management of the entry to the shop room was with Justice Varma and his members of the family and effectively monitored with none outsiders gaining access to it with out permission. The objection of the shop room being located at a distance from the residential portion of the bungalow pale into insignificance, it added.
The committee mentioned it was sharing every bit of proof and assertion of varied witnesses with Justice Varma, ‘in compliance of rules of pure justice’.
The panel additional video recorded each assertion, to ‘guarantee’ that the veracity of the report couldn’t be challenged at a subsequent level of time and likewise for affirmation whether or not such statements have been in sum and substance recorded appropriately.
