Cash-at-Hom Ro: SC rejected Justice Yashwant Verma’s petition; The judge challenged the in-house inquiry. Bharat News
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the petition of Justice Yashwant Verma by challenging the in-house inquiry process and its conclusions, which entangled them in heavy cash discovered from their official residence premises, and then the President and the Prime Minister recommended CJI Khanna’s recommendation to start a removal proposal against him.A bench of Justice Di Dipankar Dutt and AG Masih rejected every argument raised by senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohtgi on behalf of Judicial Verma and said that the investigation process followed the in-house process set by SC in their decisions.While writing a decision for the bench, Justice Dutta said that the in-house investigation process is not parallel to the constitutional process to remove the judge of the Constitutional Court, and therefore Sibal argues that it was unconstitutional that there was no water.
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Questioning Justice Verma’s conduct and “it does not inspire faith”, Justice Dutta and Justice Masih said that until then the non-hearing of the judge has not violated any procedure before removing the CJI as such a hearing cannot be claimed as correct.Earlier, the apex court reserved its order on Justice Verma’s petition on 30 July.The apex court had demanded reck a report by an in-house inquiry panel by the apex court, in which he was found guilty of misconduct in the cash search case. The report of the In-House Inquiry Panel accused Justice Verma on the discovery of a huge cash of cash burnt from his official residence during his tenure as Delhi HC Judge.The case is related to the recovery of large quantities of cash from an outhouse at Justice Verma’s official residence in Delhi on 14 March. Cash was found during the fire fighting operation in the campus. At that time, Justice Verma was serving as a judge of the Delhi High Court. The central government is allegedly planning to bring an impeachment motion in Parliament to remove Nyaya Verma from the office.
