SC Agrees to Hear Plea Searching for FIR Towards Justice Varma In Money Row Tomorrow
The Supreme Court docket is slated to listen to on Wednesday a plea looking for legal prosecution of Justice Yashwant Varma, who’s embroiled in an issue surrounding the alleged discovery of an enormous pile of burnt money within the storeroom hooked up to his bungalow within the nationwide capital after the hearth brigade had gone there to douse a blaze on March 14.
As per the causelist revealed on the web site of the apex courtroom, a bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan will hear the matter on Might 21.
On Monday, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai informed advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara, the lead petitioner-in-person, that the apex courtroom could take up the plea for listening to on Might 20.
After Nedumpara submitted that he could be unavailable on Tuesday, the CJI Gavai-led Bench agreed to checklist the matter on Might 21.
Final week, declining to present an out-of-turn listening to, the CJI Gavai-led Bench informed Nedumpara to observe the “mentioning process”, which requires sending an electronic mail to the apex courtroom registry for pressing itemizing of the petition.
If Justice Varma has dedicated the offence of accumulating wealth via corrupt means, an impeachment by itself is not going to suffice, stated the petition, demanding his legal prosecution.
“What has occurred is a grave crime towards public justice. When it’s a choose, the defender of justice who’s himself the accused or wrongdoer, then it’s no extraordinary offence, the gravity is way higher, and so should be the punishment. [I]t is crucial that legal regulation is about into movement, the matter is completely investigated, and most significantly, verify who have been bribe givers/beneficiaries and what was the trigger/judgment by which justice was bought,” stated the petition.
“It was indeniable that the large volumes of cash that have been burned and partly burned and clandestinely eliminated have been nothing however bribe/corruption — against the law punishable below the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Prevention of Corruption Act. There was no official clarification as to why no FIR was registered and why the legal regulation was not set into movement, which might have meant the seizure of the forex notes securing the crime location, the arrest of suspects, and so on.,” added the plea.
Within the final week of March, a bench of Justices Oka and Bhuyan disposed of one other plea filed by the identical petitioners looking for route to the Delhi Police to register an FIR and trigger an efficient and significant investigation into the cash-discovery allegations.
“The ‘in-house’ inquiry is ongoing. If the report finds one thing unsuitable, an FIR might be directed, or the matter might be referred to the Parliament. Immediately will not be the time to contemplate (the registration of FIR),” the bench had remarked then.
Questioning the non-registration of an FIR on March 14 itself, the day when unaccounted money was reportedly discovered, the petition stated the delay on the a part of the authorities involved to make accessible to the general public the digital information results in the irresistible inference that what was happening was an try at a cover-up.
Following the alleged money discovery, which despatched shockwaves throughout the judicial corridors, the then CJI Sanjiv Khanna had constituted a 3-member committee to conduct an inquiry towards Justice Varma. Amid the in-house probe, Justice Varma was transferred from the Delhi Excessive Court docket to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket. The Supreme Court docket Collegium had earlier really helpful that the Centre repatriate Justice Varma to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.
Earlier, this month, then CJI Khanna had forwarded to the President and the Prime Minister the report of the highest court-appointed in-house enquiry panel.
“Chief Justice of India, by way of the In-Home Process, has written to Hon’ble the President of India and Hon’ble the Prime Minister of India enclosing therewith copy of the 3-Member Committee report dated 03.05.2025 together with the letter/response dated 06.05.2025 acquired from Mr Justice Yashwant Varma,” stated a press assertion launched by the apex courtroom on Might 8.
