Delhi High Court Judge Justice Yashwant on Saturday refuted the allegations that unaccounted cash was recovered from his official residence on March 14.
Appearing before the committee constituted to conduct an inquiry into the alleged recovery of unaccounted cash from the official residence of the Delhi High Court sitting judge,Justice Varma said that no currency was recovered from his premises.
He further requested the CJI to absolve him of these unfounded and baseless allegations.
He said in the life of a judge, nothing mattered more than reputation and character. The incident has severely tarnished and irreparably damaged his reputation.
He said baseless allegations have
been levelled against him on mere innuendos and an unproven
assumption that the cash allegedly seen and found belonged to him.
He said the incident has scarred his reputation built over more than a decade as a Judge of a High Court, and left him with no means to defend himself.
Justice Varma said that in all his years as a Judge of a High Court, no such allegation had ever been made in the past nor any doubt cast on his integrity.
Earlier on Saturday, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna constituted a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the alleged recovery of unaccounted cash from the official residence of Justice
Yashwant Varma, a sitting Judge of the High Court of Delhi.
The members of the committee include Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana; Justice G.S. Sandhawalia, Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh and Justice Anu Sivaraman, Judge of the High Court of Karnataka.
CJI Khanna further directed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya not to assign any judicial work to Justice Yashwant Varma for the time-being.
A report was submitted by Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya to the CJI today, stating that the entire matter warranted a deeper probe.
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