‘Cheap publicity’: SC dismisses plea seeking SIT probe into Justice Varma unaccounted cash row
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The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a probe by a Special Investigation Team into the recovery of unaccounted cash from former Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma’s residence in Delhi, reported Bar and Bench.
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The petition was filed for “cheap publicity”, said a bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe.
Unaccounted cash was allegedly recovered at Varma’s official residence in Delhi when emergency services responded to a fire there on March 14, 2025. He was a judge at the Delhi High Court at that time.
The judge said that he was in Bhopal when the cash was discovered and claimed that it did not belong to him or his family.
The controversy prompted his transfer to the Allahabad High Court.
In April, he resigned from his post, more than two months after Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the process to impeach the judge was underway.
The petitioner in the present plea had told the Supreme Court that Varma is not immune from criminal liability merely because he had resigned, reported Bar and Bench. He sought a first information report against him.
“Earlier similar petition was dismissed on technical ground that no complaint was filed before filing the petition,” Bar and Bench quoted him as saying. “That is done now.”
However, the bench held that it was not inclined to hear the plea.
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