Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla today reconstituted the three-member committee he had set up earlier to probe charges of corruption against former Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.The constitution of the panel after admission of a multi-party notice for Varma’s removal on August 12, 2025, had set into motion the process of impeachment of the judge who was later transferred to the Allahabad High Court.The original inquiry committee consisted of Supreme Court judge Justice Aravind Kumar, Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and senior Karnataka High Court advocate BV Acharya.In a new order issued today, the Lok Sabha Speaker has replaced Madras HC Chief Justice Shrivastava with Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Justice Shree Chandrashekhar.Chief Justice Shrivastava is retiring on March 6 upon attaining 62 years and the inquiry is still underway. This warranted a reconstitution of the panel.The LS Speaker had received a proposal from 146 Lok Sabha members, including Ravi Shankar Prasad and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, seeking removal of Justice Varma on July 21.Justice Varma was repatriated from the Delhi High Court to the Allahabad High Court after burnt wads of currency notes were found at his official residence here on March 14 last.Judges of the Supreme Court and high courts can be removed through a parliamentary process based on “proved misbehaviour or incapacity”. This process is governed by Article 124(4) (for Supreme Court) and Article 218 (for high courts) of the Constitution, read with the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968.Under the Act if a related motion is admitted, the Speaker will constitute, for the purpose of making an investigation into the grounds on which the removal of a judge is prayed for, a committee consisting of three members of whom — one shall be chosen from among the Chief Justice and other judges of the Supreme Court; one shall be chosen from among the Chief Justices of the high courts, and one shall be a person who is, in the opinion of, the Speaker or, as the case may be, the Chairman, a distinguished jurist.