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NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu does not look to person accepted the resignation of Justice Yashwant Varma who, faced with a removal question aft find of wads of unaccounted wealth successful his authoritative residence successful Delhi, had enactment successful papers astir amonth ago.
His sanction figures astatine serial fig 4 of the database of judges successful HC authoritative portal and is preceded by Justices M C Tripathi, Arindam Sinha and Ranjan Roy. This is due to the fact that seemingly President Droupadi Murmu has not yet accepted his resignation from the station of HC judge. In his resignation missive dated Apr 9 addressed to the President, Justice Varma had said, “While I bash not suggest to load your august bureau with the reasons which person constrained maine to taxable this missive, it is with heavy anguish that I hereby tender my resignation from the bureau of the justice of Hon’ble High Court of Judicature astatine Allahabad, with contiguous effect.” According to Article 217(1), a justice ceases to clasp bureau if he/she resigns from bureau by sending a resignation missive “by penning nether his manus addressed to the President.” A five-judge SC seat successful the Gopal Chandra Misra lawsuit connected Feb 15, 1978 addressed the contented of however the resignation of a justice comes into effect. It was unanimous that erstwhile the justice sends his resignation to the President, helium is deemed to person ceased to beryllium a judge.
In this case, the justice had acceptable a prospective day for his resignation to instrumentality effect and earlier the accomplishment of the date, helium had withdrawn his resignation. The SC by 4 to 1 bulk had ruled that arsenic the resignation was prospective, the justice had each close to retreat it anterior to the appointed date. In contrast, Justice Varma’s resignation was categorical that it was “with contiguous effect”. This means arsenic per the mandate of Article 217 (1), helium ceased to beryllium a HC justice the infinitesimal his missive resigning with “immediate effect” was received by the President. Unnerved by grounds of eyewitnesses who doused a occurrence astatine his residence past year, Justice Varma saw the penning connected the wall, withdrew from enquiry proceedings and resigned.
