'He is still Justice': SC schools lawyer for calling Yashwant informally 'Varma'

The Supreme Court connected Monday refused an urgent proceeding for a petition requesting FIR registration against Justice Yashwant Varma implicit the cash-at-home row.Justice Yashwant Varma came nether scrutiny earlier this twelvemonth aft a occurrence astatine his residence led to the find of a ample sum of unaccounted cash.

A Supreme Court enquiry committee subsequently recovered him blameworthy of misconduct, prompting then-Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna to urge impeachment proceedings to Parliament.

Justice Varma has since contested the findings and has approached the Supreme Court to situation the panel’s conclusions.The seat comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was urged by lawyer Mathews Nedumpara that it was his 3rd petition connected the issue, and it beryllium listed for proceeding urgently, PTI reported. The lawyer insisted connected FIR registration and investigation, stating it was inevitable. However, the seat expressed displeasure erstwhile the lawyer referred to the precocious tribunal justice informally arsenic 'Varma'."Do you privation it to beryllium dismissed close now?" the CJI asked, adding that it volition beryllium listed successful owed course."It is intolerable to beryllium dismissed. An FIR has to beryllium registered. Now Varma seems to beryllium asking for that only. There has to beryllium an FIR, an investigation," the lawyer said.

"Is helium your friend? He is inactive Justice Verma. How bash you code him? Have immoderate decorum. You are referring to a learned judge. He is inactive a justice of the court," the CJI said."I don't deliberation that greatness tin use to him. Matter has to beryllium listed," the lawyer insisted."Please don't dictate to the court," the CJI said.In caller developments, Justice Varma approached the Supreme Court to situation an in-house enquiry panel's study that recovered him culpable successful the currency find case.The justice seeks to nullify the May 8 proposal by erstwhile Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna for parliamentary impeachment proceedings against him.The enquiry panel's study indicated that Justice Varma and his household maintained power implicit the store country wherever partially burnt currency was discovered, establishing misconduct superior capable to warrant removal proceedings.A three-judge committee, led by Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Sheel Nagu, conducted a 10-day investigation, examining 55 witnesses and inspecting the tract of the accidental occurrence that occurred astatine 11.35 p.m. connected March 14 astatine Justice Varma's authoritative residence, who served successful the Delhi precocious tribunal earlier his transportation to Allahabad precocious court.Following the report's findings, erstwhile Chief Justice Khanna recommended the judge's impeachment to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.