NEW DELHI: The three-member judicial inquiry panel, appointed by CJI Sanjiv Khanna to inquire into the alleged discovery of huge amounts of cash at Justice Yashwant Varma’s official residence on March 14, visited the judge’s Tughlaq Crescent bungalow Tuesday afternoon and spent nearly 45 minutes there.Sources said the panel — comprising Punjab & Haryana HC…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday announced the immediate withdrawal of Justice Yashwant Varma from judicial duties days after substantial cash was found at his official residence during a fire-fighting operation.“In view of recent events, the judicial work from Hon’ble Mr. Justice Yashwant Varma is withdrawn with immediate effect, till further orders,” the…
NEW DELHI: CJI Sanjiv Khanna‘s prompt move to order a judicial inquiry into charges of cash being found at Justice Yashwant Varma‘s residence notwithstanding, the task ahead for the three-member panel could be tedious and time-consuming as it involves examining many people and requires assistance of experts to analyse the judge’s call data records.The panel…
Delhi HC judge Yashwant Varma NEW DELHI: Delhi high court judge Yashwant Varma has strongly denied allegations that a large sum of burnt currencyy was recovered from his official residence after a recent fire incident.In a lengthy letter to Delhi high court’s chief justice, Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Justice Varma called the claims “baseless” and “preposterous”,…
NEW DELHI: A video that Delhi Police commissioner Sanjay Arora shared with CJI I Sanjiv Khanna and Delhi HC CJ D K Upadhyay, purportedly revealing burnt cash at Justice Yashwant Varma‘s house on March 14, appears to have clinched the case for a deeper probe against the sitting Delhi HC judge, who, despite the graphic…
NEW DELHI: A fire that broke out in the residential bungalow of a Delhi high court judge resulted in recovery of a huge pile of cash, sending shock waves in judicial corridors and forcing the Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna to decide to transfer him to another HC.When the fire broke out,…
To erase this perception of lineage trumping merit or a judicial officer getting priority over first-generation lawyers in getting recommended for appointment as high court judges, one of the collegium judges recently mooted the idea of instructing high court collegiums not to recommend lawyers or judicial officers whose parents or close relatives were/are judges of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of a controversial speech by Allahabad high court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav, in which he reportedly said the country would function as per the wishes of the “bahusankhyak (majority)” and expressed a term used to describe rigid clerics, which is considered pejorative by many. Amid protests that…
Collegium recommends elevation of Delhi HC CJ Manmohan as judge to SC (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday unanimously recommended to the Union govt to appoint Delhi HC chief justice Manmohan as an SC judge. SC, with a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, including the…
NEW DELHI: As air quality in Delhi-NCR reaches hazardous levels, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Supreme Court Bar Association president Kapil Sibal on Monday urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to transition all courts in the region to a complete virtual mode. The request comes in response to the enforcement of Stage-IV (Severe+) measures…
