Justice Yashwant Varma quits amid impeachment process

NEW DELHI (TIP): Faced with proceedings for his removal for misconduct over recovery of unaccounted half-burnt wads of cash from his official residence in Delhi on March 14 last year during a fire incident, Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court has submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu. Faced with proceedings for his removal for misconduct over recovery of unaccounted half-burnt wads of cash from his official residence in Delhi on March 14 last year during a fire incident, Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court has submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu. Simultaneously, Justice Varma has also withdrawn from the ongoing inquiry conducted by a Lok Sabha- appointed panel under the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968, for his removal, saying his continued participation in it would legitimise an earlier inquiry, where he was asked to “answer the unanswerable” question on the source of money allegedly found from his Delhi residence when he was a judge of the Delhi High Court. “I withdraw with the deepest sadness, conscious of the gravity of my decision and with the hope that history will one day record the unfairness with which a sitting High Court Judge was treated and that has marked this entire episode from its inception,” Justice Varma wrote in his 13-page letter.