The Judges’ Inquiry Committee, which was tasked with examining the grounds for the removal of Justice Yashwant Varma, on Monday submitted its report to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in Parliament House.The report, which was presented in accordance with the statutory requirements under the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968, will be laid before both Houses of Parliament in due course, Lok Sabha secretariat sources said.The committee was constituted by Birla on August 12, 2025. However, he had reconstituted it in February this year. The reconstituted committee comprised Justice Arvind Kumar, Judge, Supreme Court of India; Justice Chandrashekhar, Chief Justice, Bombay High Court; and BV Acharya, senior advocate, Karnataka High Court.Justice Kumar and Acharya were members of the previous panel, while Justice Chandrashekhar was inducted as a new member. He replaced Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.Earlier, 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 Varma of the Allahabad High Court had submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu on April 9 this year. There is no clarity on whether his resignation has been accepted by the President or not.His resignation, if accepted by the President, would render the proceedings for his removal as a judge infructuous and he would join the league of tainted judges such as Calcutta High Court Judge Justice Soumitra Sen and Sikkim High Court Chief Justice PD Dinakaran, who chose to quit in the midst of removal proceedings.The resignation, however, makes him vulnerable to criminal proceedings as he loses the immunity enjoyed by constitutional court judges.Simultaneously, Justice Varma has also withdrawn from the ongoing inquiry conducted by a Lok Sabha-appointed panel under the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968, for his removal, saying his continued participation in it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.