After In-House Committee's Report, CJI Khanna Gives Justice Yashwant Varma Time Till May 9 to Respond

New Delhi: Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court has been given time till Friday (May 9) to respond to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) over allegations of cash discovery at his residence, reported Bar and Bench.

Earlier, the in-house committee that was constituted to probe the allegations had indicted Varma in a report submitted to the CJI Sanjiv Khanna.

"Report has indicted him. As per procedure, the CJI has called upon him. The first option given to him is to resign. If he resigns, it is good. If he does not, then the report will be sent to the President recommending impeachment," a source told Bar & Bench.

The committee had started the probe on March 25 and submitted its report to CJI Khanna on May 4.

Earlier, The Wire had reported that the CJI, who was handed over the report of the panel comprising chief justices of the Punjab & Haryana high court Sheel Nagu, chief justices of the Himachal Pradesh high court GS Sandhawalia and Karnataka high court Judge Anu Sivaram, after discussing the issue with his senior brother-judges in the apex court, could even ask Justice Varma to tender his resignation.

On March 14, a fire broke out at the outhouse of Justice Varma’s official residence at 30, Tughlaq Crescent in New Delhi. While putting out the blaze, a video purportedly showed, fire fighters allegedly stumbled upon large sums of cash.