New Delhi. Justice Yashwant Verma, who was surrounded by cash burning, seems to be difficult to grow. 145 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 63 in Rajya Sabha have proposed to impeach against Justice Yashwant Verma. The proposal to remove a judge through impeachment requires at least 100 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 50 MPs in Rajya Sabha. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha take a final decision on impeachment.
Justice Yashwant Verma has moved the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment action against him. Justice Yashwant Verma has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court. In the petition, Justice Verma has said that by going against the law, the committee of judges asked him to prove that he is not guilty in the case of cash burning. Justice Yashwant Verma has appealed to cancel the report of the committee of judges in the petition given in the Supreme Court. Justice Verma said in the petition that the committee of judges could not prove that the owner of the cash removed it from the residence. If the Supreme Court gives a verdict in favor of Justice Yashwant Verma, then it may affect impeachment against him.
This case of cash burning is on 14 March 2025. On the night of Holi, there was a fire in the store room of Justice Yashwant Verma’s government residence in Delhi. Delhi Fire Service and police officers and soldiers had arrived to extinguish the fire. Delhi Police officials, who reached the spot, found that a lot of cash was also burnt by the fire. He made a video of this and sent it to the Delhi Police Commissioner. He informed this to Chief Justice DK Upadhyay of Delhi High Court. When the information of the entire case reached the then CJI Sanjeev Khanna, he formed a committee of three judges for investigation. The report of this committee was sent by CJI Sanjeev Khanna to President and PM Narendra Modi. Justice Verma was not at his residence on the day of the fire. He went to Rewa. He had an elderly mother and daughter at the residence. Justice Yashwant Verma also says that after extinguishing the fire, when his daughter and staff people went to the spot, they did not show any cash there. Justice Verma is calling it a conspiracy against him.
