The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked him sharp questions, not credible by Justice Yashwant Verma, who requested the internal inquiry committee report to be invalid in the cash recovery case.
In the report of the internal committee, Justice Verma was found guilty of misconduct.
The apex court asked Justice Verma as to why he appeared before the Internal Investigation Committee and did not challenge him there.
The court told Justice Verma that he should have come first against the committee’s report.
A bench of Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice AG Christ said that if there is any document to believe in the Chief Justice of India that a judge has committed misconduct, he can inform the President and the Prime Minister.
The bench said, ‘Moving or not moving, will be decided by political decision. But the judiciary has to give a message to the society that the process has been followed.
On behalf of Justice Verma, senior advocate Kapil Sibal said that the recommendation of the internal inquiry committee to remove him is unconstitutional.
Sibal told the court that synchronizing such action would set a dangerous example.
He said that Justice Yashwant Verma did not first move the Supreme Court because the tape was released and his image was tarnished.
The apex court requested the lawyer Mathews J., who requested to register an FIR against Justice Verma. Also asked Nedumpra questions. During the hearing, Justice Dipankar Dutta asked Nedumpra if he had made a formal complaint to the police before the request to register an FIR.
The apex court reserved the verdict on the plea of Justice Verma. Justice Verma has challenged the recommendation of the Chief Justice of India related to the internal investigation process and removal of them in the petition.
The court also reserved the order on Nedumpra’s petition related to filing an FIR.
Justice Verma has also requested to cancel the recommendation of May 8 of the then Chief Justice of India Sanjeev Khanna, in which Khanna urged Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against Verma.
Justice Verma alleged that the committee’s report is already based on the discourse and it seems that regardless of procedural fairness, it was hurriedly investigated to settle the case.
The petition stated that the inquiry committee concluded him adversely without giving him the opportunity to present his case in full and fair manner.
The report of the committee investigating the case said that Justice Verma and his family members had some control over the ‘store room’ in some way or the other, where a large amount of cash was found after the fire.
The committee said that this proves the misconduct of Justice Verma and it is so serious that he should be removed from the post.
A three -judge committee headed by Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Sheel Nagu, investigated for 10 days, questioned 55 witnesses and visited the place at Justice Verma’s official residence where there was a fire on March 14 at around 11:35 pm. At the time of the incident, Justice Verma was a judge of the Delhi High Court and is currently a judge in the Allahabad High Court.
The then Chief Justice Khanna wrote a letter to President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommending impeachment against the judge after considering the report.
