No money stored in storeroom both by me or my members of the family: Justice Varma
New Delhi, Delhi Excessive Court docket choose Yashwant Varma has strongly denounced the allegations within the forex restoration row at his official residence right here and mentioned no money was ever positioned within the storeroom both by him or any of my members of the family.
In his response submitted to Delhi Excessive Court docket Chief Justice D Okay Upadhyaya, Justice Varma mentioned the allegations of money discovery at his residence clearly seemed to be a conspiracy to border and malign him.
Justice Varma filed his reply after the Delhi Excessive Court docket Chief Justice sought his response pursuant to an in-house probe initiated by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
He additionally mentioned that the media ought to have carried out some enquiry earlier than making allegations and defaming him. Justice Varma mentioned he was not conscious of any cash or money mendacity within the outhouse storeroom.
“Neither I nor any of my members of the family had any data of money nor does it have any bearing or relation with me or my household. No such money or forex was proven to my members of the family or workers who had been current on that fateful evening.
“I additionally strongly deny and outrightly reject the insinuation if made, that we eliminated forex from the storeroom. As said above, we had been neither proven nor handed over any sacks of burnt forex. In reality, and as said above, the restricted particles which was sought to be salvaged continues to exist in a single a part of the residence,” the choose mentioned.
Narrating the incident, Justice Varma mentioned a fireplace broke out within the storeroom located close to the workers quarters of his official residence on the intervening evening of March 14-15, 2025.
He mentioned this room was typically utilised by one and all to retailer articles comparable to unused furnishings, bottles, crockery, mattresses, used carpets, previous audio system, backyard implements in addition to CPWD materials.
“This room is unlocked and accessible each from the official entrance gate in addition to the backdoor of the workers quarters. It’s disconnected from the primary residence and is unquestionably not a room in my home as has been portrayed and recommended within the article which appeared within the Occasions of India and sure different information studies.
“On that date, my spouse and I weren’t in Delhi and travelling in Madhya Pradesh and it was solely my daughter and aged mom who had been at residence. I returned to Delhi solely on the night of March 15, 2025, from Bhopal travelling on an Indigo flight with my spouse,” he mentioned.
He shared that when the hearth broke out round midnight, the Fireplace Service was alerted by his daughter and personal secretary whose calls could be duly recorded.
“Through the train to douse the hearth, all workers and the members of my family had been requested to maneuver away from the scene of the incident in view of security issues. After the hearth was doused and once they went again to the scene of the incident, they noticed no money or forex on web site.
“I state unequivocally that no money was ever positioned in that storeroom both by me or any of my members of the family and strongly denounce the suggestion that the alleged money belonged to us. The very thought or suggestion that this money was stored or saved by us is completely preposterous,” Justice Varma mentioned.
He mentioned recommendations that one would retailer money in an open, freely accessible and generally used storeroom close to the workers quarters or in an outhouse verges on the unbelievable and incredulous.
“It’s a room which is totally disassociated from my dwelling areas and a boundary wall demarcates my dwelling space from that outhouse. I solely want the media had carried out some enquiry earlier than I got here to be indicted and defamed within the press,” the choose mentioned.
The purported discovery of an enormous stash of money occurred following a fireplace at Justice Varma’s Lutyens’ Delhi residence at round 11.35 pm on the evening of Holi on March 14, prompting the hearth division personnel to hurry to the spot and douse the flames.
In an announcement on Friday, the Supreme Court docket mentioned the Delhi Excessive Court docket chief justice had initiated an in-house inquiry towards Justice Varma; individually, there was a proposal to switch the choose to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.
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