Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court, who is facing an inquiry into an unaccounted cash row, has submitted his resignation to President Draupadi Murmu, reported Live Law on Friday.
Varma had submitted his resignation on Thursday, according to The Wire. A copy of the resignation letter has been sent to Chief Justice Surya Kant.
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 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.
Varma’s resignation came more than two months after Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the process to impeach the judge was underway. The Union government was awaiting the report of a three-member committee set up under the 1968 Judges Inquiry Act by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on August 12, Rijiju had added.
On February 25, the committee was reconstituted as one of the three members, Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, was set to retire on March 6. He was replaced by Bombay High Court Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar.
Process to impeach VarmaOn March 22, 2025, the...
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