New Delhi. Justice Yashwant Verma has suffered a shock from the Supreme Court in the case of burning cash. The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the petition of Justice Yashwant Verma. The Supreme Court has upheld the recommendation of the President of Sanjeev Khanna, the CJI, to form the investigation committee of three judges and to remove Justice Yashwant Verma from the post. The Supreme Court said that the behavior of Justice Yashwant Verma raises questions. The court said that the decision to upload a video of the burnt cash was not correct, but it was not challenged in time. The Supreme Court also dismissed a petition demanding an FIR against Justice Yashwant Verma.
Justice Verma filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court and appealed to cancel the report of the investigation committee of three judges against himself. Justice Verma said in his petition that getting a note from the house does not prove that this amount was his own. Justice Yashwant Verma said in the petition that the internal inquiry committee of the judges has not told in its report, who was the burnt cash and how it came to his residence. Justice Verma says that it has been based on estimates that the burning cash was his only. Justice Yashwant Verma also said in his petition that the recommendation of impeachment on behalf of the then CJI Sanjeev Khanna to the President and PM against him violates Articles 124 and 218 of the Constitution. He has also argued that it was decided in the Full Court meeting of the Supreme Court in 1999 that the in house process is administrative system. It was not considered constitutional.
Justice Yashwant Verma had also said in the petition that an inquiry committee of judges was formed on estimated and non -certified information without formal complaint. He has also argued for a deep push to reputation from media trials. Justice Yashwant Verma has said that the main witnesses were questioned in his absence. CCTV footage was not taken evidence. Justice Verma has also said in the petition that neither showed them evidence of burning cash nor given an opportunity to denote the allegations. Justice Yashwant Verma said in the petition that the inquiry committee of the judges also informed who kept the cash in the store room of his residence and how the fire broke out. Apart from this, a few hours after receiving the investigation report, the then CJI warned of resigning or facing impeachment.
Justice Yashwant Verma has also said that in the previous cases of misconduct, the accused judges were given the opportunity of personal hearing. He did not get a chance of personal hearing. Justice Verma has also said in the petition filed in the Supreme Court that the inquiry report given by the committee against him was given to the media, not confidential. He has also alleged that the parts of the report against him were distorted. He called the cash burning case a conspiracy against himself. He also says that after extinguishing the fire, his daughter and staff people went to the store room, so he did not see the burnt cash there.
